Jesna missing case: Police to probe building site

PATHANAMTHITTA: The special investigation team probing the Jesna missing case will conduct further inspection at a building site of  Jesna's father James Joseph at Enthayar near  Mundakkayam. The team had received a  tip-off that  the body might have been buried under the building  in a  'Drishyam' model murder.

The police had placed boxes at  Mukkoottuthara, Jesna’s native place, and St. Dominic College at Kanjirappally where she had studied, seeking secret information from the public regarding the missing  girl. An action council formed under Vechoochira panchayat governing council seeking justice to Jesna had also demanded inspection of the site earlier.

Jesna’s father James had undertaken contract work for one of the houses that was funded by a college to be donated to destitute students. The construction commenced in July 2017, but was stopped mid-way in  January this year. The team found that grass was grown inside the house under construction except at  some area, which made the team suspicious. The team has also sought the aid of forensic experts for a detailed examination of a blood- stained piece of cloth  recovered from Jesna's house recently.

The call details of the mobile phone were also retrieved with the help of cyber cell which included messages she had sent to her friend a day before she went missing. The messages hinted that she was going to end her life.  The police also found her  friend had called Jesna more than a thousand times.

The police received sa tatement from one of the relatives of Jesna that another relative had followed her in a car after she boarded a bus from Mukkoottuthara on the day she went missing. Jesna Maria James, 20, was a second- year B.Com student of St. Dominic’s College,  Kanjirapally. Hailing from ‘Kunnath’ at Vechoochira in Ranny,  she  went missing after  she left for her aunt’s house on March 22.  A 15-member special investigation team had also been constituted for the investigation earlier.