According to him, a few real estate brokers, including Sebastian, and Jaya alias Mini, a native of Karuppamkulangara near Cherthala, had taken possession of her assets after forging documents.
Bindhu stayed alone at her home, Padma Nivas, after the death of her parents.
She sold ancestral properties worth crores of rupees that she had received from her parents. Bindhu had also owned land at Edapally in Ernakulam. Later, it was sold, but the documents used to sell the property were found forged.
For the preparation of the land documents, a driving license, SSLC book, and the power of attorney of Bindhu were produced in the registrar’s office, but all the documents were fake.
Praveen had collected the details of the land dealings from the Edapally sub-registrar office, which led to the mysterious missing case.
Later, Sebastian, a real estate broker as pertaining to this case, was arrested by the local police. He told the police that he had created fake documents in the name of Bindhu. T Mini, alias Jaya, the second accused in the case, had surrendered before the court.
She had confessed to the police that she had signed documents pretending as Bindhu for selling the properties.
Though the local police questioned Sebastian and Jaya, they did not get any clue about Bindhu.
The mystery behind the disappearance of Bindhu deepened with the suicide of S Manoj, 46, Thaikkoottathil house, Pallipuram, an auto driver, who was a close friend of Sebastian and Bindhu. Manoj was found hanging in his house on June 28, 2018, when the police directed him to appear for questioning.
In the initial stage, the local police looked at the case as a land dispute, and later it developed into a mysterious missing case.
Praveen Padmanabhan, Bindhu’s brother, told TNIE over the phone from Italy, that the failure of the police led to the murders of innocent women, including my sister.
“In 2017, I inquired about my sister; she was in our native place at the time. When all it started, nobody had an exact answer, as we had not been in good relations. When I was in our native place , a real estate broker from Kochi, reached my village and inquired about my sister. Information regarding a property in Edapally being sold after forging documents came to light, and it led to my investigation into the case,” he said.