Kozhikode: The Kerala Police, probing the mysterious deaths of six people of a family between 2002 and 2016, on Saturday arrested three people including a family member Jolly.
Speaking to the media, Superintendent of Police K. G. Simon who led the investigation, said that he took over the probe based on a complaint which he received two months back and on Saturday in one case – death of Roy Thomas – three people have been arrested, which includes 47-year-old Jolly, then wife of Roy Thomas. She is allegedly involved in the death of the other five also.
“Incidentally, in the death of all the six, presence of cyanide has been found, but that will now have to be proved scientifically. Apart from Jolly, her friend M. C. Mathew who was the one who gave her cyanide which he got from another person named Praju Kumar, are the other two that have been arrested,” said Simon.
On Friday, the police exhumed all the bodies for a scientific probe.
The police dug in the cemeteries at two churches near here to take samples for conducting scientific tests.
The deaths occurred in the family of retired government official Tom Thomas.
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