P. K. Mohammed Abduhassan Maulavi or Chekannur Maulavi (born 1936) was an Indian modern Islamicist from Chekannur, Malappuram district of Kerala, India. He is the founder of the Quran Sunnath Society. He disappeared on 29 July 1993. His death is uncertain.
Disappearance and investigation The CBI took over the case in 1996, and in 2000 arrested two members of the ultra orthodox Muslim sect under suspicion of murder.'Court orders trial of Kanthapuram'
The case was hampered by the disappearance of several witnesses, whose property was seized when they fled abroad rather than appear to testify in 2008.Chekannur Maulavi murder case: CBI court orders confiscation of assets of witnesses - Newindpress.com
Mohammed's wife filed a petition seeking to arraign A.P. Aboobacker Musaliyar as a murder suspect through her lawyer, Advocate S.K. Premraj which was allowed. The court had found that Mohammed's body was disposed of in some mysterious manner so as never to be recovered, which was dismissed by High Court later
A Decision Bench of the Kerala High Court in 2018 acquitted the first accused. With this, all accused in the case, including the first accused V. V. Hamsa, who had been sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment in 2010 have been let off. Even Chekannur Moulavi's death could not be proved.
In popular culture His disappearance is the subject of a 2009 documentary, Ore Oru Chekannur.Documentary on Chekannur Maulavi
See also List of people who disappeared mysteriously (2000–present) List of unsolved murders (1980–1999)
References
External links www.moulavichekanoor.com Khur'aan Sunnath Society