Kerala (The Stellar News): Megistrate court in Ernakulam in Kerala on Wednesday remanded the three accused persons in the brutal murder of two women in the name of ‘ritualistic human sacrifice for financial prosperity’- Mohammed Shafi, his wife Laila- into Judicial custody for 14 days.
Shafi is the first accused in the case and singh and laila are second and third accused, respectively.
As per information, the main accused Shafi used Facebook to lure women. In the remand report submitted to the court, the police said the murders were committed for appeasing the goddess and for financial prosperity. Shafi had lured the women for sex work offering Rs 10 lakh each, it said. Both victims were subjected to torture before they were beheaded, it added.
The report also said Rosly was beheaded by Laila, the second accused in the case, while Padmam was killed by Shafi. According to the report, Rosly’s breasts were chopped off after she was killed. The women’s bodies were cut into several pieces before being dumped into pits near Singh’s house at Elanthoor in Pathanamthitta.
The two women, both residents of the Ernakulam district in Kerala, sold lottery tickets for a living. They also frequented the same low-cost restaurant in Kochi, until they went missing—Rosly on June 6, and Padmam on September 26. The police suspect that the women were killed within 24 hours after they went missing from Ernakulam.
The killings came to light when the police were probing a missing person case, filed by Padmam’s family. Originally from Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu, Padmam had been living in Kochi. Her family filed a police complaint on September 27, a day after she went missing. The police found that Padmam had been in touch with Shafi, who was earlier named in several criminal cases including drug peddling, assaults and rape, after analysing call records.
