{"id":264992,"date":"2022-12-02T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=264992"},"modified":"2022-12-02T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T13:36:00","slug":"2-convicted-for-latvian-tourists-2018-rape-murder-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/12\/02\/2-convicted-for-latvian-tourists-2018-rape-murder-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Convicted For Latvian Tourist’s 2018 Rape-Murder In Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The court will on December 5 pronounce the order on the sentencing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Thiruvananthapuram: <\/b><\/p>\n

A local court in Kerala today convicted two persons for raping and murdering a Latvian woman tourist who went missing in 2018 from Kovalam near Thiruvananthapuram.<\/p>\n

Thiruvananthapuram Sessions Court convicted the accused Umesh and Udayan under various sections of the Indian Penal Code including rape and murder of the 33-year old Latvian tourist, who had gone missing under mysterious circumstances from Kovalam on March 14, 2018.<\/p>\n

The accused were found guilty based on circumstantial evidence and the court will on December 5 pronounce the order on the sentencing.<\/p>\n

“The body was found after 38 days and in a decomposed state due to which we lost a lot of biological evidence but the police were able to build a case based on circumstantial evidence and the prosecution was able to successfully prove it in the court,” the prosecutor told the media.<\/p>\n

The highly decomposed and headless body of the woman was recovered from a mangrove forest at nearby Thiruvallam on April 21, 2018 and the accused, Umesh and Udayan, were arrested on May 3, 2018.<\/p>\n

IG P Prakash, who met the media outside the court complex in Thiruvananthapuram said he was very happy to learn about the verdict.<\/p>\n

Mr Prakash was the city police Commissioner when the incident happened.<\/p>\n

“We are just happy that we could bring the culprits before justice. There were many issues in the case. The body was found in a very decomposed state. It was a very challenging case. The locals were not cooperating in the case. This is an issue relating to a foreign lady. We were able to provide justice to her family,” Mr Prakash said.<\/p>\n

The accused were charged under IPC sections 302 (murder), 376 (rape)and 20(b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances NDPS Act.<\/p>\n

Police had said that the woman was raped and murdered by the two accused, who are drug peddlers, on March 14, the day she went missing.<\/p>\n

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, they said.
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