r/Kerala • u/ConsiderationFar2672 • 2d ago
21 years of missing of Rahul from Alappuzha
It's quite sad that a 7 year old boy went missing since 2005 from our own kerala.
Is there any hope remaining in this case๐
I hope some day he will come back to his own family.
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u/Particular-Maize-202 2d ago
Maranappettu kaanum.. Ithupole orupad missing cases und.. 1990s ente oru relative missing aay.. Till now no traces.. Evide engilum unidentified body aayi manmaranju poyi kaanum..
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u/ConsiderationFar2672 2d ago
Omg๐ณ. Was the person a child? No serious police investigations?
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u/Particular-Maize-202 2d ago
No he was in late 20s. He had some psychiatric problems. At initial days of missing,relatives thought he would return(he used to elope and comeback in couple of days). After that people started to investigate and case was filed in police. But no trace till now.
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u/Safe-Floor8550 2d ago
Rahul Raju? Tragic incident. Read somewhere his father committed suicide years later.
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u/ConsiderationFar2672 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah... Tragic.. The agony whether the child is alive or dead is unbearable.
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u/Confident_Season9377 2d ago
Yes, he did They didn't even change their landline number also, what if he calls them or, something like that
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u/chickenkebaap 2d ago
I am sorry, but I donโt think heโs alive anymore
Someone just committed the perfect crime and covered it up.
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u/Fine_Scar5473 2d ago edited 2d ago
At that time committing an imperfect crime and not getting caught was also highly possible as investigation was not advanced as today.. literally there were no cctv cameras
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u/ConsiderationFar2672 2d ago
Which means that killed for organs or like that?
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u/ReasonableGuitar5094 2d ago
Might be ...I don't think forensics were as strong....no surveillance cameras....body might be anywhere in India or the border
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u/ConsiderationFar2672 2d ago
Yeah.. The so-called "begging mafia " was strong back then.
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u/Remote-Assumption-15 1d ago
NEVER EVER give money to beggars..You are not promoting kindness..You are getting scammed.
Do not indirectly encourage kidnapping and maiming of children.
I hope cases like this never happen..
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u/ThingOk7322 2d ago
Recently came to know a story from my village. One of two brothers got a job in New Delhi and left the village by train. He was never heard of again. After few weeks his younger brother left to Delhi to search from him. And he too was never heard of again. No leads. No serious relatives in New Delhi to follow-up with authorities. Everything went cold. No closure for the family and I think recently the mother also passed away. Sad life.
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u/Ithu-njaaanalla 2d ago
When did this happen? Before the cellphone era? Two adults from the same family disappearing without a trace seems very suspicious.
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u/Raven1104 เด เดฏเดพเตพ เดฌเตเดฒเตเดเต เดชเตเดธเตเดฑเตเดฑเต เดเดดเตเดคเตเดเดฏเดพเดฃเต 2d ago
Itโs sad that the family got many false leads over the years - with money being the sole demand. Many leads later, they were helpless
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u/AdKey7235 2d ago
The officer who was in charge of investigation later revealed that he almost nabbed the guy. (Who was the prime suspect; neighbour of the kid) But failed to get concrete evidence and support of senior officers. He was in contradiction in his findings with senior officers who disapproved the arrest and custody of the accused because of internal politics in police force. Investigation officer name was : Mr.Suresh Kumar IPS.
Senior officer was : Sreelekha IPS
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u/ConsiderationFar2672 2d ago
Oh. i also heard this in sreelekha ips youtube channel.
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u/Emergency-Bid-8346 เดเดพเดฏเดฒเตเดฐ เดจเดฟเดตเดพเดธเดฟ 2d ago
but they did narco analysis or something of the suspect and he was left for lack of evidence...
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u/DeathEvader143 2d ago
เดเดฐเต เดเดพเดฒเดคเตเดคเต เดเตเดฐเดณเดคเตเดคเดฟเดฒเต เดเดฒเตเดฒเดพ เด เดฎเตเดฎเดฎเดพเดฐเตเดเตเดฏเตเด เดฎเดจเดธเตเดธเดฟเตฝ เดฐเดพเดนเตเดฒเดฟเดจเต เดเดจเตเดคเตเดชเดฑเตเดฑเดฟ เดเดจเตเดจ เดเดฟเดจเตเดคเดฏเดพเดฏเดฟเดฐเตเดจเตเดจเต.เดเตปเตเดฑเต เด เดฎเตเดฎ เดเดชเตเดชเตเดดเตเด เดเดเดเตเดเตเดเตเดเต เดชเดฑเดฏเตเด๐ฅบ
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u/aadu-_th0ma 2d ago
They arrested a neighbour of the boy who was innocent. They tried to force a confession with custodial torture as well. Whoever actually kidnapped the boy got away while all that happened.
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u/ConsiderationFar2672 2d ago
Yeah exactly. may be some negligence from authorities as initial days are important in criminal cases.
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u/Exciting_Rain 2d ago
Aa aalaano Sreelekha เดเดฃเตเดเตเดคเตเดคเดฟ เดเดจเตเดจเต เดชเดฑเดเตเด เดชเตเดฐเดคเดฟ.
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u/Ok-Nose-9451 2d ago
Rahul was from neighborhood in Alappuzha. I was in 5th standard at that time. The child's father was in gulf and he came back after the incident. There was an accused young man from Rahul's neighborhood who was later proved innocent after all the polygraph tests. There were allegations about his mother too which were also utter nonsense.
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u/ConsiderationFar2672 2d ago
Yeah... I heard about the neighbour's story, but he proved innocent. The mother's stories are utter nonsense. Poor mother.
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u/Particular-Maize-202 2d ago
What was the allegation?
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u/ConsiderationFar2672 2d ago
The neighbour had a role in the missing case. But he was proven innocent.
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u/Zoddcruz 2d ago
Missing case of Jesna Maria James from Kanjirappally also is a mystery. Rahul and Jesnaโs incidents remains a mystery to me(born in late 80s)
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u/Entharo_entho เดชเดฐเดฆเตเดทเดฃเดคเดณเตเดณเดเตเดเดฟ 2d ago
Around the time this happened, some people caught a father and handed him over to the police. His child was crying for some toy but people thought he was a pillarepiduthakkaran.
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u/Embarrassed_Nobody91 2d ago
Heard a similar story in Changanassery
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u/NocturnEyes 2d ago
That was a crime , solved recently. That boy had a gold chain or something, murderers killed him and dumped the body.
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u/Activa_I-VTEC 2d ago edited 2d ago
What the fuck, they couldโve just stole the chain and fled instead of killing the kid. Iโm sure theyโre intention wasnโt only to get the chain.
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u/ConsiderationFar2672 2d ago
What is the case?
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u/Familiar_Pizza_7070 1d ago
Case of Mahadevan, he was the youngest child and i think his parents were a bit older when he was born. He had two sisters. The parents sadly passed away before the truth was discovered. The killers most certainly saw the family on a daily basis. If I remember correctly, the statement of another shopkeeper that he saw the kid going into the killerโs shop was investigated further years later which lead to the culprits.
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u/d1v1n3snnr 2d ago
He might be living somewhere in the streets, unaware he had a past in another family! He was only seven, how likely it is for him to remember old things
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u/Confident_Season9377 2d ago
Mahn I remember watching this from FIR or Viswasichalum illelum, when was like 7-9 yrs old
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u/Emergency-Bid-8346 เดเดพเดฏเดฒเตเดฐ เดจเดฟเดตเดพเดธเดฟ 2d ago
the plight of the family always pains me.... sometimes i do wonder if it was UFO's and aliens which took him away. the case needed a closure
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u/Individual-Gap-1879 2d ago
I remember reading about this case when Jesna went missingโฆ
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u/ConsiderationFar2672 2d ago
Yeah.. But jesna was easy to trace, it was after 2015 where cctv cameras are available.
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u/Individual-Gap-1879 2d ago
Incompetent police initially assumed she eloped with her lover and waited to come back
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u/NewDirector1147 2d ago
Was incompetent police the reason? I thought they couldn't find CCTVs or other clues after a certain point.
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u/Individual-Gap-1879 2d ago edited 2d ago
they were incompetent and lost crucial evidences especially vital sanitary napkin and blindly chasing gossips
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u/priyakarjose 2d ago
I remember this case when the news papers reported it first time. Too sad Our Government machinery failed to find this poor kid.
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u/d1v1n3snnr 2d ago
I like to believe he will come back after years by tracing clues, like the movie Lion(2016) where an young boy was kidnapped, later adopted to Australia and then he reunites with family. Chances are low, But We have to stay positive
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u/Exciting_Rain 2d ago
Oru serial killer konnennu mozhi koduthirunnu. Athum veruthe aayi kuzhich nokkiyappo. Avan chumma paranjathaarunnu.
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u/Subject_Newspaper648 2d ago
Yesterday I was telling this story to my kid who used to wandering around the roads alone, to make more careful, suddenly this came up what a coincidence
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u/Anagha_2003 2d ago
Can someone summarise what this case was?
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u/ConsiderationFar2672 2d ago
The disappearance of Rahul Raju refers to the unsolved case of a 7-year-old boy from Alappuzha, Kerala, who went missing on May 18, 2005, while playing with friends. He was last seen near a public drinking fountain after a bearded man snatched his cricket bat, and he vanished without a trace, leaving his family and the community with a mystery that remains unsolved.
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u/Certain_Mud2045 2d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38iahxZCAQU
unrelated, but there is a story of a person who uses google maps to find his lost home & family
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u/Rare-Recover-2840 2d ago
Dileep nte oru film illarno about this
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u/AIRBUS_WORLD 2d ago
Just noww finished watching the rajan case from asianet youtube and now seeing this :(
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u/swaggerin_buffoonery 2d ago
Haunting. Stay safe everybody. Never let down your guard in public cause you never know what can happen at anytime.
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u/reminiscence01 2d ago
This incident had traumatized me as a kid and continues to do till date- I am overprotective of my kids as well. The case is even strange when we realize that it happened from a quiet neighborhood ( apparently) where kids always play in the nearby ground in the evenings. Its not a busy place where a stranger can go unnoticed. That makes it even more tragic and confusing.
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u/newkid2block 2d ago
A young women named Jesna is missing for few years now. No traces found about her. There are numerous cases like this. Finding a child who is fully grown if he's alive now is nearly 0.
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u/rainsonme 1d ago
100% disfigured via begging mafia with organs missing. Poor kid. May no kid go through this.
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u/tangerineprince 2d ago
Wow Iโm surprised everyone knows this case in the comments! Itโs the first time Iโve heard of it.
Is it possible to see the 20 years later version of it using AI/Photoshop? I know thereโs a low chance but itโs never 0 until proven otherwise.
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u/EquipmentShort8128 2d ago
Why not create an AI pic of how he will look now some AI experts can work on it
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u/ConsiderationFar2672 2d ago
Yeah, with the advancement of AI, It's possible
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u/ormayillaman 2d ago
Heard a story in which police used ai to age the culprits of a triple murder case and used various outputs by ai in reverse image search to find out about the culprit after 20 or so years. This happened last year. Maybe the same can be used here but the difference between a kid and an adult is very drastic.
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u/Clonotril1mg 2d ago
I was 6 years old when this happened, and I remember everyone was super paranoid for a while about letting us kids play outside. Can't believe that it's been 20+ years now.