A Kerala court on Saturday extended the police custody of Jolly Jose and two others in connection with the suspicious deaths of six members of her family. The court extended the remand period after rejecting the bail applications of the three accused.
The murders were allegedly to have been committed in Koodathayi in Kerala's Kozhikode, over 14 years from 2002 by lacing food with cyanide. The three accused—Jolly, M.S. Mathew and Prajikumar—were produced before the Thamarassery court in Kozhikode on Saturday as their remand ended. The three have been sent back to Kozhikode jail.
Meanwhile, the Bar Council members have accused Jolly's counsel Advocate B A Aloor for allegedly misleading her to choose him as her advocate. A dispute raged over Jolly's suit at the court on Saturday as lawyers of the Bar Association objected to Jolly's counsels by arguing there is no clarity as to whom Jolly chose to represent her.
"I had signed the power of attorney thinking that the advocate was offering free legal advice," an Onmanorama report said citing Jolly. "I don't believe that my relatives had approached Aloor to appear for me in the case."
