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| birth_place = Chekannur, [[Malappuram]], [[Kerala]], [[India]] <br />
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'''P.K. Mohammed''' or '''Chekannur Maulavi'''<br />
(born in 1936) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[Islamic Modernism|secular Islamist]] from Chekannur, [[Malappuram district]] of [[Kerala]], [[India]].<ref name="REM339">{{cite book |last1=Roland E. Miller |title=Mappila Muslims of Kerala: A Study in Islamic Trends |year=1992 |publisher=Orient Longman |page=339 |isbn=9780863112706 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HbTXAAAAMAAJ&q=chekannur+maulavi |access-date=1 April 2020}}</ref> He is the founder of the Quran Sunnath.<ref name="indiatoday">{{cite news |title=Meet Jamitha Teacher, India's first woman Imam |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/meet-jamitha-teacher-india-s-first-woman-imam-1155342-2018-01-27 |access-date=6 April 2020 |agency=India Today}}</ref><br />
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He disappeared on 29 July 1993. His death is uncertain.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/chekannur-moulavi-case-accused-let-off/article25231374.ece|title=Chekannur Moulavi case: accused let off|date=16 October 2018|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-10-26|others=Special Correspondent|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Maulavi founded Quran Sunnath Society which is known for Jamitha Teacher, the first Indian woman imam.<ref name="indiatoday" /><br />
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== Disappearance and investigation ==<br />
The [[Central Bureau of Investigation|CBI]] took over the case in 1996, and in 2000 arrested two members of the ultra orthodox Muslim sect under suspicion of murder.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2000/12/18/stories/0418211r.htm|title=Moulavi case: CBI closing in on main culprit?|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329135405/http://www.thehindu.com/2000/12/18/stories/0418211r.htm|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=2000-12-18|archive-date=29 March 2018}}</ref><ref name=trial>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070520101125/http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/27/stories/2005072713660400.htm 'Court orders trial of Kanthapuram']</ref><ref name="GK34">{{cite book |last1=Girja Kumar |title=The Book on Trial: Fundamentalism and Censorship in India |year=1997 |page=34 |isbn=9788124105252 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n-KUICFfA00C&lpg=PA34 |access-date=1 April 2020}}</ref><br />
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The case was hampered by the disappearance of a number of witnesses, whose property was seized when they fled abroad rather than appear to testify in 2008.<ref>[http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEX20080329231818 Chekannur Maulavi murder case: CBI court orders confiscation <br>of assets of witnesses - Newindpress.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
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Mohammed’s wife filed a petition seeking to arraign [[Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar|A.P. Aboobacker Musaliyar]] as a murder suspect through her lawyer, Advocate S.K. Premraj which was allowed.<ref name=trial/><br />
The court found that Mohammed’s body was disposed of in some mysterious manner so as never to be recovered.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article804461.ece |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020184545/http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article804461.ece |archive-date=2012-10-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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A Decision Bench of the Kerala High Court acquitted the accused.<ref name="The Hindu">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/chekannur-moulavi-case-accused-let-off/article25231374.ece|title=Chekannur Moulavi case: accused let off|date=16 October 2018|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-08-19|others=Special Correspondent|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> Even Mohammed’s death could not be proved.<ref name="The Hindu"/><br />
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==In popular culture==<br />
His disappearance is the subject of a 2009 documentary, ''Ore Oru Chekannur''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090415184709/http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/11/stories/2009041152510300.htm Documentary on Chekannur Maulavi ]</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[List of solved missing person cases]]<br />
*[[List of unsolved murders (20th century)|List of unsolved murders]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.moulavichekanoor.com www.moulavichekanoor.com]<br />
* [http://khur-aansunnathsociety.com Khur'aan Sunnath Society]<br />
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[[Category:1993 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Malayali people]]<br />
[[Category:Male murder victims]]<br />
[[Category:Missing person cases in India]]<br />
[[Category:Murder convictions without a body]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Quranist Muslims]]<br />
[[Category:People declared dead in absentia]]<br />
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