High-profile criminal lawyer Biju Antony Aloor aka B.A. Aloor has taken up the defendant's case in the serial killings at Koodathayi in Kerala. On Thursday, a junior lawyer practising under Aloor appeared for Jolly Jospeh—the prime suspect in the killings of six persons in a family—in a Thamarassery court which remanded all the three accused in the case in six-day police custody.
Jolly's lawyer later told media that her client was suffering from mental imbalance.
“Jolly's close relatives had asked the advocate (Aloor) to appear for her,” he said, but refused to divulge specific details on who approached the senior lawyer.
Aloor, known for representing the accused in several sensational cases, had tried to visit Jolly at Kozhikode district jail on Wednesday.
Aloor had earlier appeared for Govindachamy, the accused in the Soumya murder case. The Supreme Court later commuted the death sentence of Govindachamy to a seven-year jail term after dropping murder charge against him. Aloor had also appeared for Amir-Ul-Islam, the accused in the Jisha murder case in Perumbavoor.
Jolly was arrested on October 5 over the death of her husband Roy Thomas in 2012 following consumption of cyanide-laced food. Police claimed her role in the death of five others, too, was revealed in the further investigation.
While Annamma Thomas had died in 2002, her husband Tom Thomas passed away six years later in 2008. Later, their son Roy Thomas died in 2011. Annamma's brother Mathew died in 2014 and two relatives—Sili and her one-year-old daughter—in 2016.
