Kerala police use AI to crack 19-year-old triple homicide case

The Kerala Police has claimed to have solved a 19-year-old triple homicide case with the assistance of synthetic intelligence (AI).

In a case of homicide of a girl and her 17-day-old twins in 2006, the Kerala Police final week arrested two former armymen with the assistance of AI, in accordance with The Indian Categorical.

In 2006, when the case was first reported, the police swiftly recognized Divil Kumar and Rajesh as suspects. The 2 armymen belonged to Kerala and had been stationed in Punjab’s Pathankot. Nonetheless, regardless of early progress, the suspects vanished and the case finally remained unsolved for almost 20 years.

Nineteen years later, on January 4, 2025, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested the 2 males in Puducherry, the place they’d been residing below false identities.

Divil Kumar, now 42, had assumed the identify Vishnu, whereas Rajesh, 48, adopted new identify Praveen Kumar. They had been working as inside designers and had been married to schoolteachers.

The breakthrough within the case was made potential by means of a mix of superior AI expertise and protracted investigation.

Kerala ADGP (Regulation and Order) Manoj Abraham instructed The Indian Categorical, “Our technical intelligence staff used synthetic intelligence to revisit this long-pending case. Outdated pictures of the suspects had been digitally aged to foretell their present look, factoring in adjustments akin to hairstyles and facial options. These AI-generated photos had been then cross-referenced with photographs on social media platforms. One AI picture had a 90 per cent match with a marriage {photograph} discovered on Fb. This match led us to Rajesh in Puducherry, who finally guided us to Divil. For the reason that case was below the jurisdiction of the CBI, we knowledgeable their Chennai unit, which carried out the arrests.”

Abraham emphasised the rarity of AI being utilized in fixing such an outdated legal case.

Ranjini and the accused Divil, neighbors from Alayamon in Kollam, had been in a relationship. When Ranjini grew to become pregnant and determined to maintain the infants, their relationship soured, and Divil returned to his Military put up in Pathankot. In January 2006, Ranjini gave delivery to twin daughters at a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.

Rajesh, a colleague and good friend of Satan within the Military, posed as Anil Kumar from Kollam to befriend Ranjini. Police revealed that Rajesh and Satan conspired to kill Ranjini and her youngsters. Each had been on depart when the alleged crime occurred.

On the day of the alleged crime, Rajini’s mom returned from the panchayat workplace the place she had gone to gather the twins’ delivery certificates and located Rajini and her new child twins lifeless.