thrissur relatives neighbours and friends of mayooranathan from avanoor in thrissur who was arrested on monday on charges of murdering his father sasindran by mixing poison in the food find it hard to believe that he would commit such a cruel actmayooranathan was taken to his house by the police for evidence collection he was produced before the judicial firstclass magistrate of wadakkanchery late tuesday nightmayooranathan who was an ayurvedic doctor was himself suffering reportedly from stomach cancer his friends and teachers recall that he was a remarkably intelligent student and voracious reader and had byhearted several ayurvedic textbooks which are in sanskrit he was thorough with the topics to be covered in the fourthyear course even when he was a firstyear student recalled a teacher some even feel his could be an extracted confession his ailments had forced him to remain absent from his college even during the examination days police say that his intelligence seems to have helped him to produce the poison mixture which gave no difference in taste to the idlicurry though it could cause the death of his father his stepmother and grandmother as well as the two casual labourers also did not feel any taste difference to that idlicurryhis mother had ended her life some years ago by burning herself and this had left an indelible shock in mayooranathans mind said his relatives