Chekannur Maulavi


P.K. Mohammed or Chekannur Maulavi
was an Indian secular Islamist from Chekannur, Malappuram district of Kerala, India. He is founder of Quran Sunnath Society, known for Jamitha Teacher, the first Indian woman imam.
He disappeared on 29 July 1993. His death is uncertain.

Career

Maulavi founded Quran Sunnath Society which is known for Jamitha Teacher, the first Indian woman imam.

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.
The case was hampered by the disappearance of a number of witnesses, whose property was seized when they fled abroad rather than appear to testify in 2008.
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 found that Mohammed’s body was disposed of in some mysterious manner so as never to be recovered.
A Decision Bench of the Kerala High Court acquitted the accused. Even Mohammed’s death could not be proved.

In popular culture

His disappearance is the subject of a 2009 documentary, Ore Oru Chekannur.