Jisha rape and murder suspect Ameerul Islam unmasked

KOCHI: The Perumbavur First Class Magistrate Court remanded Ameerul Islam, the prime suspect in the rape-murder of the 30-year old Dalit LLB student at Perumbavur, to another 14 days in judicial custody on Thursday. His face was un covered for the first time.

The Perumbavoor First Class Magistrate Court has remanded Ameerul Islam, the prime suspect in the rape-murder of the 30-year old Dalit LLB student at Kuruppampady near Perumbavoor, to another 14 days in judicial custody on Thursday. He was taken to the court without his face covered for the first time since his arrest from a place close to Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu on Jun 15. Ameerul was taken to Ernakulam district jail where he will continue until July 13.

Ameerul Islam

The investigation team decided to reveal the identity of the Assam native following the completion of the process of identification parade and recording of evidence with the accused from the spot of crime and most of other places visited by him after committing the offence. The accused said that he was not having any complaint when the court asked. His counsel meanwhile sought the permission of the court for visiting him in the jail.

The probe team has collected the evidence in the presence of Ameerul from the house of Jisha and places where he stayed in Perumbavoor and Kancheepuram. They have not revealed whether they will seek his further custody for interrogation. The police may request his custody for taking him to Assam as part of gathering evidence. The team has also taken back the objects, the knife allegedly used by the accused to murder Jisha, and chappals he abandoned after that from the custody of Kuruppampady court.

They will show the same to Ameerul and make sure of their authenticity, sources said. Jisha was found murdered in her house on the night of April 28 under mysterious circumstances, and the police traced Ameerul as the killer nearly 50 days later based on the evidence garnered from the DNA sampling.