# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sukumara-kurup
# Generated: 2026-08-31T11:49:15.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sukumara-kurup"
name: "Sukumara Kurup"
slug: "sukumara-kurup"
description: "Sukumara Kurup is an Indian fugitive and is one of the most-wanted criminals in the Indian state of Kerala. On 21 January 1984, he, along with his brother-in-law Bhaskara Pillai, his driver Ponnappan and his aide Shahu, murdered a man named Chacko in an attempt to fake Kurup's own death and thereby claim a life insurance amount of INR 8,00,000. The subterfuge was soon exposed by the police, who arrested Bhaskara Pillai, Ponnappan and Shahu. However, Kurup absconded from the state in the meantime. Notorious for being India's longest wanted fugitive, Kurup has been missing since 1984."
tagline: "Wanted alleged criminal"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Image_30-12-2025_at_11.12.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1946-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.05
  momentum:             25
  historical:           6.779434666666667
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  48
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7635919"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukumara_Kurup"
    title: "Sukumara Kurup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "സുകുമാരക്കുറുപ്പ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0_%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "సుకుమార కురుప్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views