Goons' Own Country ; with the Recent Killing of a Top Industrialist, Another Inglorious Chapter has Been Added to Kerala's Slide From a Relatively Peaceful State to a Volatile Crime Zone.

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The scion of one of Kerala's richest business families and the executive director of the Rs 20,000-crore Muthoot Group, Paul M. George, 31, was quite an eligible bachelor. But at midnight of August 21 he lay dead on a deserted road near Alappuzha with stab wounds all over his body. The copassenger in his car, R. Praveen, was admitted to hospital with injuries. Two days later, the police arrested 11 persons believed to be members of a criminal gang in connection with the murder.

On August 25, a petty criminal Kari Sathish, who was arrested a day before, admitted having stabbed Paul to death. But many, including Satish's relatives, say he is being framed by the police only to shield some bigwigs. Second of the three sons of M.G. George, chairman, Muthoot Group, and Sara George, Paul had recently shifted his business hub from Delhi to Kerala after taking over the Group's hospitality division.

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Goons' Own Country ; with the Recent Killing of a Top Industrialist, Another Inglorious Chapter has Been Added to Kerala's Slide From a Relatively Peaceful State to a Volatile Crime Zone.

According to the police, though Paul was killed by contractual killers, it was not planned. Ruling out business rivalry or an act of revenge, the police say it was the result of an altercation on the road. Their laboured theory goes like...

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