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{{Infobox serial killer<br />
| name=Motta Navas<br />
| image=<br />
| caption=<br />
| birthname=Navas<br />
| alias= <br />
| birth_date=1966<br />
| birth_place=[[Kollam]], [[India]]<br />
| death_date= <br />
| cause= <br />
| criminal status= Incarcerated<br />
| victims= 7<br />
| country= [[India]]<br />
| states= [[Kerala]]<br />
| beginyear= June<br />
| endyear= August 2012<br />
| apprehended= 2 November 2012<br />
| conviction= [[Murder]]<br />
| penalty= [[Life imprisonment]]<br />
| imprisoned= [[Poojappura Central Jail]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Motta Navas''' (born 1966) is an Indian [[serial killer]] who operated in the city of [[Kollam]], [[Kerala]] between June and August 2012. Pavement dwellers were bludgeoned to death while they slept. All the murders took place at night and were committed by using stones or hard, blunt objects.<br />
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==Early murders==<br />
Navas had already been convicted twice for murder. In 1996 he was arrested on charges of murdering Rajasekaran at Mundakkal in Kollam and was jailed for four years. He was acquitted because there were no witnesses. In 2007 he was arrested again on charges of murdering one Shamir at Karikode in the city following which he was arrested and convicted.<ref name="The Hindu report">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/man-held-on-charge-of-five-murders/article4060891.ece|title=Man held on charge of five murders|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=3 November 2012|accessdate=19 December 2012}}</ref><br />
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==Serial killings==<br />
A series of brutal murders in the city of [[Kollam]] and nearby areas rocked the city in June 2012. Pavement and hutment dwellers were bludgeoned to death while they slept. All the murders took place at night and were committed by using stones or hard, blunt objects. A drug addict, Navas used to sleep by 8 p.m. and wake up at midnight to roam the city, targeting victims.<ref name="The Hindu report"/><br />
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The first murder was committed on the night of 6 June. The victim, aged about 65 years, was hit on the head with a huge stone whilst he was sleeping under the SP Office flyover which was under construction.<ref name="The Hindu report"/> The second murder was committed the very next night on the veranda of a shop. The victim, Appukuttan Achary, was bludgeoned in the nape of his neck, fatally damaging the spine.<ref name="The Hindu report"/> The third murder was on the night of 18 June, also under the SP Office flyover. Bondan Kumar, 65, was hit on the head with a stone.<ref name="The Hindu report"/> On 3 August, Thankappan, 55, a native of Sasthamcotta, was found dead inside a bus waiting shed. He was sleeping in the shed when Navas attacked.<ref name="The Hindu report"/> The fifth murder was committed on the night of 21 August at the veranda of the Municipal Building in [[Chinnakkada]].<ref name="The Hindu report"/> Sudarsanan, 45, was hit on the head with a stone. Navas had attempted two more murders, but the victims escaped with injuries.<ref name="The Hindu report"/><br />
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==Arrest==<br />
Soon after the second murder, the police suspected Navas and took him into custody. Navas pretended to be mentally challenged and so the police got him admitted to a mental asylum in [[Thiruvananthapuram]]. Whilst there, however, psychiatrists found him mentally fit and he was discharged. He came back to Kollam and allegedly committed the other murders. Night patrol teams of the police had noticed Navas loitering in the city on those days, but on seeing the police party he feigned mental illness and was ignored by the police. After investigations which lasted about a fortnight a police team led by Kollam East Circle Inspector V. Sugathan, Sub Inspector G. Gopakumar, and senior civil police officer Prasanna Kumar arrested Navas from the Nehru Park area in the city on 2 November 2012.<ref name="The Hindu report"/><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Schizophrenia]]<br />
*[[Serial killer]]<br />
* [[Raman Raghav]]<br />
* [[Stoneman]]<br />
*[[List of serial killers by country]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1966 births]]<br />
[[Category:Indian people convicted of murder]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Indian murderers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian serial killers]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:People convicted of murder by India]]<br />
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