Mounted at the main entrance to their house at Pattalamukku, near Kuruppanthara, the nameplate ‘Dr .Vandana Das MBBS’ marks the fulfilment of a long-cherished dream of K.G. Mohandas and Vasantha Kumari. That dream, however, has turned into a nightmare at the sudden intervention of a violent outsider.
On Wednesday night, the middleaged couple returned to this house with the body of their lone daughter, who was stabbed to death while on duty. The pall of gloom that descended over the village deepened as wails of the victim’s relatives and friends rent the air. Mr. Mohandas and his wife remained inconsolable.
While leaving for Thiruvananthapuram around 6.30 a.m. on the day, the couple had no clue about the tragic death of their daughter. They had been only informed that she sustained some injuries while on duty.
