{"id":9438,"date":"2013-04-10T12:08:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T06:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=9438"},"modified":"2013-04-10T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T07:36:29","slug":"kerala-police-on-facebook-to-catch-adu-antony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/kerala-police-on-facebook-to-catch-adu-antony\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Police on Facebook to catch \u2018Adu\u2019 Antony"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kerala Police are on Facebook, arguably for the first time, to track the \u2018elusive criminal’ Adu Antony<\/strong>. Kollam City police Commissioner Debesh Kumar Behera, has opened a page on Facebook called ‘Justice for Maniyan Pillai<\/a>‘ seeking information on \u2018Adu\u2019 Antony, a native of Kundara, who is wanted in connection with the murder of a policeman in the district on June 25, 2012.<\/p>\n

The 49-year-old man tops the list of Kerala\u2019s most-wanted. Maniyan Pillai was stabbed to death by \u2018Adu\u2019 Antony when he challenged a van driven by Antony, an accused in scores of burglary cases in south India. Maniyan Pillai\u2019s supervisory officer, Assistant Sub-Inspector Joy, survived the attack with serious injuries.<\/p>\n

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The Facebook page which has got more than 1000+ followers is sharing the pictures of Antony along with his different looks and urging people to help the police department to nab the criminal.<\/p>\n

Police said that Antony specialised in theft of computer parts, which he sold through newspaper and Internet advertisements. He was released from Viyyur Central Jail in 2008 after serving a 4-year sentence for burglary. He has allegedly married at least 20 impoverished women whom he met through matrimonial advertisements in newspapers. He has used them to hire apartments, gain residential certificates from municipal authorities for driving licences and ration cards, and initiate bank accounts and mobile phone connections in at least six different aliases. Police has listed out all his aliases in the Facebook page.<\/p>\n

The police linked Antony to the murder when they found that he had, in 2011, given proof of his real identity to purchase the van involved in the crime. The police tracked Antony first to Velankanni, Puttaparthi, and later a pilgrim centre in Nepal. He was last seen in Shirdi in Maharashtra in early 2013.<\/p>\n

With the social media, police can reach out to a larger audience and inform people about such criminals and expect quick leads. Recently Delhi Police and Bangalore Police have joined the social media<\/a> to interact more with their citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kerala Police are on Facebook, arguably for the first time, to track the \u2018elusive criminal’ Adu Antony. Kollam City police Commissioner Debesh Kumar Behera, has opened a page on Facebook called ‘Justice for Maniyan Pillai‘ seeking information on \u2018Adu\u2019 Antony, a native of Kundara, who is wanted in connection with the murder of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[35,136,326],"class_list":["post-9438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-kerala","tag-kerala-police","tag-kollam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}