In a quiet Kozhikode village, a 14-year-old boy’s desperate act of self-defense in 1986 became a lifelong burden. Muhammadali, now in his fifties, walked into Vengara police station on July 4, 2025, and confessed to a killing that had been forgotten by all but him. 

As a teenager working on a local property in Koodaranji, Muhammadali says he was harassed by an unknown man. In a panic, he kicked the man, who fell into a stream. Frightened, the boy fled, only to return two days later to find the man dead. The police, unaware of foul play, deemed it a natural death, noting the man’s rumored epilepsy. With no one to claim the body, the case vanished into obscurity.

But guilt gnawed at Muhammadali. Decades later, personal tragedies—his elder son’s death and his younger son’s severe accident—pushed him to breaking point. Sleepless and tormented, he could no longer bear the secret. Leading police to the exact spot where the body once lay, he recounted the story that had haunted him for 38 years.

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Now, as investigators dig through faded records, a single clue remains: a 1986 news clipping about an unidentified 20-year-old found dead behind Mission Hospital. Muhammadali faces a murder charge and is in custody, while police hunt for answers to a mystery buried for nearly four decades.

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