Ernakulam : Amir Ul Islam, the accused in the brutal rape and murder of Dalit student Jisha, was on Tuesday sent to 10-day police custody.
The police had the Assam native’s custody for detailed interrogation and evidence collection. Based on this, a court today granted the police the permission to keep him in custody until June 30.
According to reports, the police has also taken Ameer ul-Islam’s brother, Badar ul-Islam, into custody from Perumbavoor.
The accused in the brutal rape and murder of Dalit student Jisha was sent to judicial custody for 14 days by the Perumbavoor Court on Friday.
The Kerala High Court had last week rejected the plea for a CBI probe into the case, stating that the new SIT had been set up in the case
The 29-year-old law student was brutally raped and murdered on April 28, in which her body sustained at least 30 injuries, including on her private parts. (ANI)