Most Shocking Crime: The year was 1996 when the first reported case of sex trafficking in Kerala came to light. Known as the ‘Suryanelli case’, it involved a 16-year-old girl who was brutally sexually assaulted for 40 days by nearly 40 men, as reported by the Deccan Chronicle. According to media reports, the girl went missing in January 1996 from her school at Suryanelli in Kerala’s Idukki.
In February, the girl returned home, bloated and ravaged, as described in a
