The investigation in the Kattappana twin murder case hit a barrier on Monday after Nitheesh, the primary suspect, altered his statement, prompting a temporary suspension of the police search for the newborn’s remains.
Nitheesh, 31, retracted his earlier testimony concerning the burial of a newborn in the cattle shed of a house near Sagara Junction, Kattappana.
During interrogation, Nitheesh had confessed to the murders of N.G. Vijayan in August 2023 and a four-day-old newborn in July 2016. He claimed to have buried them inside a rented house at Kakkattuakda, near Kattappana, and the cattle shed of an old house at Sagara Junction, respectively.
