Muhammadali, a 54-year-old native of Vengara who shocked authorities last month by confessing to a decades-old murder from 1986, has now admitted to committing another killing in 1989 at Vellayil Beach in Kozhikode.
Following his latest statement, Kozhikode police launched a preliminary probe and confirmed that a case was indeed registered at the Vellayil Police Station on September 24, 1989. They also found newspaper reports from the next day referencing an unidentified body found at the beach.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (Kozhikode Town) T.K. Ashraf said the case would be reopened after verifying Muhammadali’s statement. “We are currently retrieving the original 1989 case files. Once they’re examined, his statement will be recorded again,” Ashraf stated.
Meanwhile, another police team, led by Thiruvambady Inspector K. Prajeesh, is investigating Muhammadali’s earlier confession regarding a murder in Koodaranji. On June 4, Muhammadali voluntarily walked into Vengara Police Station and admitted to killing a man there in 1986 when he was just 14 years old. He claimed he fled to Kozhikode after the crime and assumed the identity of Antony, working at a local eatery.
In the 1989 Vellayil case, Muhammadali claimed that a man had stolen money from him, and with the help of a friend, he tracked the man to the beach and murdered him. He admitted he never learned the victim’s identity.