New Delhi: In the suicide note, Delhi University (DU) professor Alan Stanley and his mother accused the police in Kerala for harassing them and blamed a section of the media in the southern state for its ‘negative’ reportage for their death, sources in the Delhi Police said Monday.
The decapitated body of Stanley Alan (27), who was an ad-hoc professor in DU St Stephen’s College, was found on the railway tracks at Sarai Rohilla here Saturday and his mother Lissy was found hanging from a ceiling fan, with her mouth stuffed with a piece of cloth, in their Pitampura flat.
Friends and colleagues of Stanley blamed ‘malicious’ news reports published against the professor and his mother in the regional media in Kerala for the tragedy. The funeral of the two will take place Tuesday.
Police said, prima facie, both appeared to be cases of suicide, however, the post-mortem reports were awaited.
The mother-son duo was in depression because of an abetment-to-suicide case pending against them in Kerala and both were on anticipatory bail.
“In a four-page suicide note signed by both Stanley and his mother, the police in Kerala and a few other people have been accused of harassment in connection with the case. The regional media has also been blamed for sensational reporting on the case,” a senior officer of the Delhi Police, who did not wish to be named, said.
The Delhi Police will get in touch with its counterpart in Kerala to get details of the complainants being probed by the District Crime Branch of Idukki against the mother-son duo.
The crime branch of Kerala Police is probing the abetment-to-suicide case registered against Stanley and his mother in Idukki district. The case was registered September 17, TA Antony, DSP, District Crime Branch, Idukki, said. The case was lodged by the son of Stanley’s stepfather.
“He had alleged that Lissy forced her husband to transfer some cash to her account. Most of his liquid funds were transferred to her account. The stepfather became depressed and even consulted a psychiatrist,” the DSP said.
The psychiatrist advised treatment and care for Lissy’s husband Wilson, but she allegedly demanded a flat from him, forcing him to take his life, the officer added. Wilson committed suicide by hanging himself.
“At that time, the police had investigated the case as one of unnatural death. Later, however, Wilson’s family levelled allegations against Lissy, stating that she had driven him to commit suicide. There are allegations that an amount of Rs 70 lakh was transferred to her account and that she is a nominee to her husband’s deposits of Rs 2.25 crore,” the DSP informed.
A case was registered under sections 305 (abetment of suicide of child or insane person) and 380 (theft in dwelling house, etc.) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against the mother-son duo, he added.
Blaming the regional media in Kerala for its ‘one-sided’ reports, Stanley’s friends said after such reports came out, things started getting difficult for the mother-son duo.
“They started getting phone calls and messages from people in Kerala and she (Lissy) had to narrate their side of the story to them. Without any evidence or hard facts, the reports compared the matter to the Koodathai serial murder case. They were one-sided and Alan’s mother’s version was not represented,” the deceased professor’s friends said in a statement.
“Alan and his mother were all alone in this struggle. Their relatives seemed to have isolated them. There is no one to tell their story,” the statement read.
Agencies