Perumbavoor News
Three students from Delhi's St Stephen's College and a resort owner from Kerala drowned in the Periyar river in the state on Thursday evening, police said.
Jisha, a 29-year-old Dalit law student, was murdered on April 28 at her house in Perumbavoor.
Identification parade of a migrant labourer, prime accused in the killing of a 30-year-old Dalit woman in Perumbavoor here, is likely to be held tomorrow, police sources said.
Briefing reporters on the matter, DGP Loknath Behera has said legal matters pertaining to the case have to be taken care of.
The suspect in the April 28 brutal rape and murder of a 30-year old Dalit woman at Perumbavoor in Kochi is in police custody, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday said.
Investigators are awaiting his DNA sample report before they formally link him to the gruesome crime.
The Perumbavoor rape victim's kin had demanded a CBI inquiry into the case.
The Deccan Chronicle reported that the suspected killer of Jisha is a Bengali migrant worker, identified as Hari Kumar.
"Why Rahul Gandhi has not visited Kerala? He could visit Hyderabad two times after the unfortunate suicide of Rohit Vemula in Hyderabad University," senior BJP leader and Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said.
Twelve days after the murder of Dalit law student Jisha in Ernakulam district here , police on Monday took her sister Deepa in for questioning.
BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday set up a three-member committee to look into incidents of atrocities against Dalit women in election-bound Kerala, and also visited Perumbavoor to meet the family members of a 30-year-old Dalit woman who was raped and brutally murdered.
Kerala CM Oommen Chandy announced that the state government has decided to give Rs 10 lakh as compensation to the family of the Dalit law student.
With Assembly polls only 12 days away, the rape and murder of a Dalit woman has become the most talked about issue in Kerala.
A poor Dalit woman whose brutal murder has shocked Kerala had 38 wounds on her body, her autopsy revealed, as police said on Wednesday their probe was on the right track.
Almost a week after she was found raped and murdered at her home in Kerala's Ernakulam district, the cops on Wednesday released a sketch of a suspect in the barbaric rape and murder case.
The brutal rape and murder of Jisha has been dubbed "Kerala's Nirbhaya" for its chilling similarities to the gang-rape in 2012 of a young Delhi student on a moving bus.
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, Wednesday, will meet the family of the law student, who was brutally raped and murdered in Perumbavoor.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday took suo moto congnizance of media reports of rape and murder of a law student in Ernakulam and issued a notice to Kerala government.
Jisha was found lying dead in a pool of blood on April 28 at her home near a canal in Perumbavoor in Ernakulam by her mother.
The Kerala Human Rights Commission today ordered that the probe into the brutal murder of a Dalit law student in Perumbavoor be handed over to the Crime branch.
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