Cops to Seek Nod for Brain Mapping Test on Kerala Tribal Woman to Solve Case

The state police, in an extraordinary move, are planning to conduct a brain mapping test on a 31-year-old woman from the Cholanaikkan tribe, which is deemed a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), in connection with the disappearance of her three-year-old daughter in the Nilambur forest a year ago.

- SHAN A S @ T'Puram

Pookkoottumpadam police sources said they will soon be moving the Nilambur Judicial Magistrate Court, seeking its nod to conduct brain mapping of the child's mother. As per the Supreme Court ruling, a brain mapping test cannot be conducted without the subject's informed consent.