The murder was plotted by two friends in an army camp in Pathankot and executed hundreds of miles away in a village in Kerala by one of them.

The Kerala police is now looking for two army jawans for the murder of a young woman and her twin, new-born daughters.

The Kerala Crime Branch CID is looking for P Rajesh, 28, and B. Divil Kumar, 21, both from the 45/65 Air Defence Regiment, Pathankot. The Army has declared both of them deserters and is helping the investigation team with details.

Rajesh has been with the army for eight years and Divil for three. According to the investigators, they hatched a conspiracy to murder Divil’s lover Renjini at the Army camp, and Rajesh executed it.

Divil, a native of Alayamon in south Kerala’s Kollam district, was in love in Renjini, his neighbour and childhood friend. He had promised to marry her. When Renjini became pregnant, he changed his mind and asked her to undergo an abortion. “But by that time, it was too late for an abortion. And the girl was admitted to a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram,’’ says M A Rashid, detective inspector of Crime Branch CID, who heads the investigation.

The girl’s family moved the Kerala Women’s Commission which in turn asked for a DNA test. “When they came to know about it, Divil and Rajesh plotted to eliminate her,” says Rashid. Then unfolded a plot which could beat a Bollywood script.

Rajesh, a native Kannur, came to the hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, where the girl was admitted for delivery. Rajesh posed as an attendant to another patient, introduced himself as Anil and made friends with Renjini’s mother.

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