Kerala police today arrested two people for allegedly raping and brutally murdering a 33-year-old Lithuanian tourist. The body was in a highly decomposed condition and headless body. Lithuanian tourist who went missing on March 14, was recovered from a mangrove forest at Thiruvallam on April 21.
Briefing reporters, Kerala DGP Loknath Behara said the entire investigation was conducted on the basis of circumstantial evidence and using scientific methods. “The case was a homicide. It was unfortunately brutal. It should not have happened to any woman,” Behara said.
Investigating officer, Manoj Abraham said the accused have been charged under IPC sections 302 (murder), 376 (rape) and 20(b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances NDPS Act. City Police Commissioner, P Prakash, also part of the investigations, told that the woman was raped and murdered by the two accused, Umesh and Udayan, who are drug peddlers, on March 14, the day she went missing.
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“The accused lured her to the spot saying it was a scenic and beautiful place, made her consume ganja, and then sexually assaulted and strangled her to death,” he said.
The motive of the murder was sexual assault, he said. “The accused then tried to make it look like a suicide. They hung her body in a natural creaper.” As the decomposition set in, after about 30 days, the head fell off the body, he added.
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