Kochi: The investigation team found more than 50 videos of chemical use and unnatural sexual harassment in the secret folder of Saiju M. Thankachan (41), a drug lord from Kollam Nallila, the main accused in the case of a beauty pageant model who died in a car accident. There are also videos of women being drugged and tortured by multiple men.
Police also received footage of several celebrities, including Roy, the owner of Hotel 18, attending a drunken party organized by Saiju. Saiju has handed over the names and phone numbers of those seen in the scenes to the investigation team.
The investigation team has also collected social media chats with Saiju and others as evidence of drug use. It is said that on July 26, 2021, Saiju had a chat with a profile named Saira Banu and went to the forest to have a drunken party and shot the wild buffalo.
The probe team also received detailed information from phone about the activities of drunken parties in Kochi, Munnar and Goa. Phoebe John, the registered owner of the car used by Saiju to follow the car in which the models were traveling, and his friends are examining the scenes of the party held at the Kakkanad flat together. Police will question Amal Pappadavada, Nasreen, Salahuddin Moineen and Shinu Minnu, who are said to have participated in the party held by Saiju on September 7, 2020 at his flat in Chilavannur. Their names are in the remand report submitted to the court by the police.
The investigation team thinks that the participants in this party know some crucial information related to the incident in which the models were killed. Saiju kept calling some of them on the night of the accident and in the days that followed.
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