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P. K. Mohammed or Chekannur Maulavi (born in 1936) was an Indian modern Islamicist from Chekannur,
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. He is the founder of the Quran Sunnath Society. He disappeared on 29 July 1993. His death is uncertain.


Disappearance and investigation

The CBI took over the case in 1996, and in 2000 arrested two members of the ultra orthodox Muslim sect under suspicion of murder.'Court orders trial of Kanthapuram'
/ref> The case was hampered by the disappearance of several witnesses, whose property was seized when they fled abroad rather than appear to testify in 2008. Mohammed’s wife filed a petition seeking to arraign A.P. Aboobacker Musaliyar as a murder suspect through her lawyer, Advocate S.K. Premraj which was allowed. The court had found that Mohammed’s body was disposed of in some mysterious manner so as never to be recovered, which was dismissed by High Court later A Decision Bench of the Kerala High Court in 2018 acquitted the first accused. With this, all accused in the case, including the first accused V. V. Hamsa, who had been sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment in 2010 have been let off. Even Chekannur Moulavi's death could not be proved.


In popular culture

His disappearance is the subject of a 2009 documentary, ''Ore Oru Chekannur''.Documentary on Chekannur Maulavi
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See also

* List of people who disappeared * List of unsolved murders


References


External links


www.moulavichekanoor.com

Khur'aan Sunnath Society
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maulavi, Chekannur 1936 births 1990s missing person cases 1993 deaths Hate crimes in India Indian Quranist Muslims Malayali people Missing person cases in India Murder convictions without a body People declared dead in absentia People from Malappuram Unsolved murders in India