2 Ex-Armymen Killed Woman, 17-Day-Old Twins And Hid For 19 Years; Arrested
Fearing that a paternity test would prove that he was the father of a 24-year-old woman's twin daughters, who were just 17 days old, an Armyman allegedly killed her and the infants with the help of a fellow soldier. The two men then went into hiding - deserting the Army, marrying and having children - and managed to evade the law for a staggering 19 years; until a tip-off proved to be their undoing. The case dates back to February 10, 2006, when 24-year-old Ranjini and her newborn daughters were murdered in their rented house at Yeram near Anchal in Kerala's Kollam district. Ranjini's mother had discovered the bodies upon returning from the panchayat office, where she had gone to get the twins' birth certificates. Investigation revealed that Dibil Kumar B, a native of Anchal who was 28 at the time and served in the Indian Army's 45 AD Regiment in Pathankot, was in a relationship with Ranjini. After the twins were born on January 24, 2006, however, he began distanc...