Perambavoor: A police officer has been removed from the team
investigating the horrific rape and murder in Kerala of a law student whose
body was found with wounds and bite marks, her intestines hanging out.
The student’s home in Perambavoor, 200 km from the state
capital Thiruvananthapuram, was cordoned off only on Tuesday, six days after she
was killed. Sources say a forensic team examined the site only on Monday.
Sources say the Deputy Superintendent of Police of Perambavoor was removed on account of “procedural
lapses” after the 30-year-old woman was found murdered last Thursday. The investigation
team has also been expanded to 24.
Over 100 people have been questioned and a sketch of the
suspect was released by the police yesterday but no one has been arrested eight
days after the crime that has been compared to the 2012 fatal gang-rape of a
Delhi student on a moving bus.
The police initially filed a case of murder. As gruesome
details of the state of her body emerged in the past few days, triggering
outrage across the state, a rape case was also filed.
The student had allegedly been stabbed 30 times and her back
was covered with bite marks. Her smashed genitals indicated she had been
brutalized with a sharp object. Her mother, who found her mutilated body, was
admitted to hospital for trauma.
Friends of the law student say that the police tried to
“cover up” the crime to prevent an embarrassment for the government ahead of
state polls on May 16.Activists allege massive lapses that may have weakened
the search for the attacker. Many protested on the streets of
Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday, black handkerchiefs covering their mouths.
The woman’s mother reportedly told officers that she had
complained for nearly a year to the police that she was being harassed, but was
ignored.
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