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Onam brings pain, but grieving mother continues fight for justice
The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram
|August 29, 2025
With HC acquitting all policemen accused in the custodial murder of her son Udayakumar, Padmavathy Amma is forced to start her legal battle all over again
THERE is no pookalam outside the small, government-allotted house at Nedumgad near Karamana. While the rest of the state gears up to celebrate Onam, Padmavathi Amma lives in silence.
For it was during Onam in September 2005 that Udayakumar, her only son was taken into police custody. He never returned. For the past 20 years, the festival has brought with it renewed grief for the septuagenarian.
This Onam, her pain and sadness have intensified, as the Kerala High Court on Friday acquitted all police officials accused in Udayakumar's custodial death, reversing a 2018 CBI court verdict that had sentenced two officers to death and three others to three years in jail. For a mother, who spent nearly two decades walking in and out of courtrooms, it feels as though justice has been stolen again.
This story is from the August 29, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram.
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