Thodupuzha: A week after the firing at Moolamattom, near Thodupuzha, in which one person was killed Kerala Police have almost come to the conclusion that the accused shooter, Philip Martin, used a gun that was stolen from a house in Madurai in the neighbouring State of Tamil Nadu.
Ravindran and his son Aditya Vigneswarsan, hailing from Duraiswamy Nagar in Madurai, have complained to the Kerala Police that the gun used for the crime was theirs.
The gun, having licence from the Tamil Nadu police, was found missing from their house on December 29, 2020.
Along with the gun, a cash of Rs 25,000 and 60 sovereigns of gold were stolen from their house in Madurai. The Madurai city police were investigating the case.
The owners gave the complaint to the Kerala Police after they came across the picture of the gun splashed by the Tamil newspapers along with the shootout report.
The stolen gun is a 30-inch double barrel one with the number 7145. It can be folded into a 15-inch size on both sides. The wordings "E.J.Churchill Leicester Square London" are inscribed on it.
The gun seized by the Kanjar police in Idukki district also has the same wordings inscribed on it.
It was on March 26 that Sanal, hailing from Keerithodu, was shot dead by Philip Martin of Moolamattom as a follow up of a quarrel erupted at a wayside eatery in Moolamattom over the non-availability of beef.
Meanwhile, the condition of the injured, the 32-year-old Kannikkal Maliyekkal Pradip Pushkaran, who is undergoing treatment at the Kolenchery Medical Mission Hospital, remains critical.
