Kochi : The high court has summoned the head of the SIT constituted to trace Adam Joe Antony, a Chartered Accountancy student from Palluruthy who went missing on July 28, 2024, to appear in person before the court on Thursday.
Adam reportedly went missing on July 28, 2024, after leaving home around 3.45am for his regular morning cycling routine. However, the petitioner submitted that although the case had been handed over to the SIT in Sept 2025, he had not been informed of any further progress in the investigation. A bench of Justices Devan Ramachandran and Basant Balaji issued the directive on a petition filed by K J Antony of Palluruthy, Adam’s father, who submitted that the authorities had not informed him of any further progress in the investigation since the case was entrusted to the state police’s anti-human trafficking unit (AHTU).
the court had entrusted the investigation to an SIT under the AHTU and directed it to file periodic reports until Adam was traced While considering Antony’s habeas corpus petition last year.