Rajesh M. Menon, the special public prosecutor who secured conviction for the accused in the sensational Attappady Madhu lynching case from the SC-ST special court in Mannarkkad, has been chosen as CBI special public prosecutor in the Walayar case.
The mother of the two minor victims of the sensational Walayar case had demanded the appointment of Mr. Menon as special public prosecutor for the Central Bureau of Investigation. The Central agency is currently reinvestigating the Walayar case, in which the two sisters were found hanging in their house at Attappallam, near Walayar, on different dates in 2017.
While the 13-year-old sister was found dead on January 7, 2017, her nine-year-old sibling was found dead in the same fashion on March 4, 2017. It was alleged that the girls had been raped and murdered. But the prosecution failed to prove the allegations, letting the accused walk away scot-free from the POCSO court here.
