Rahul Raju was a seven-year-old boy from Alappuzha in Kerala, India, who went missing on 18 May 2005, while playing with friends in his neighborhood.
He lived with his mother and grandparents in Alappuzha, while his father worked abroad in Kuwait with an oil multinational corporation.
[4] The local police questioned many people, including a middle-aged man from the neighborhood who admitted to killing Rahul and throwing his body into a marsh.
In February 2006, the CBI decided to make a neighborhood youth undergo a Narco Analysis test and approached the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court for permission.
[5] At some point after Rahul's disappearance, a man from Haripad named Krishna Pillai was arrested by Adoor police, for sexually assaulting and murdering a three-year-old girl.
Pillai confessed to police that he had killed Rahul and thrown the child's body into a marsh in Alappuzha's Palace Ward.
[6] In early 2013, the CBI filed a plea before the High Court of Kerala to allow them to close the case as the boy was untraceable.