Kerala police laughed, says beheaded tourist Liga Skromene's kin

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April 24, 2018

Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 24: The family of a Lithuanian tourist, whose highly decomposed body was recovered from near Kovalam, on Monday demanded a high-level probe into the circumstances leading to her death.

"We demand a special crime investigation team formed to find out what happened to Liga Skromene," her sister Ilze, told reporters here.

"We want justice for Liga," an emotional Ilze said.

ANI also reported Ilze accusing the Kerala police of trivializing her sister's disappearance when she had gone to file a missing person's report, claiming that the police laughed at her and told her that Liga will be found. 

Kerala Police had set up a special investigation team to probe into her disappearance, 10 days after the family had filed a missing complaint, she claimed.

"Only 10 days after Liga disappeared had police begun a serious probe to trace her," she said adding her sister was murdered.

A highly decomposed body, with a severed head, was recovered from Thiruvallam near Kovalam on April 21 from a bushy isolated area near a mangrove forest on the banks of Karmana river.

Police had suspected that the body was that of Liga and are awaiting DNA test reports.

Family members had recognised her by her hair and clothes.

Liga's husband, Andrews, said she could not have been where she was found on her own.

He also appealed to the local people to give any information to police if they had seen anything fishy.

"There have been 'serious lapses' in the inquiry by Kerala police," they alleged.

The state government had yesterday promised all help to the family to transport Liga's body to their native place for last rites.

The government had also promised to provide Rs five lakh as immediate relief.

Thirty-three-year-old Liga who had come for Ayurvedic treatment for depression went missing from Kovalam on March 14.

Police had formed an SIT and launched a massive search to trace Liga.They had also announced a reward of Rs two lakh for anyone providing information about the missing woman.

IG, Thiruvananthapuram range, Manoj Abraham would supervise the investigation relating to Liga's death.

DGP Loknath Behara told reporters that the truth should come out.

A woman foreign tourist had come to Kerala and died. A proper investigation will be held to bring out the truth.It is a challenge to the state police, he said.

Comments

Well Wisher
 - 
Tuesday, 24 Apr 2018

Dear tourists,

India is becoming dangerous for its own people. Then how could you imagine yourself safe here. Please stay away and choose other country.

Shahir
 - 
Tuesday, 24 Apr 2018

Most of the politicians and police officers are same. Arrogant

Kumar
 - 
Tuesday, 24 Apr 2018

It's the time for putting one more hashtag in social media... #JusticeForLiga

Farooq
 - 
Tuesday, 24 Apr 2018

Police custodial death also reported 2-3 within 6 months. Police became too arrogant. They are treating help-seeking people as criminals

Sandesh
 - 
Tuesday, 24 Apr 2018

Kerala police were good but now acting like goons

Sooraj
 - 
Tuesday, 24 Apr 2018

Who told you this lie. Dont politicise the issue and dont try to give political gain to BJP

Durgaprasad
 - 
Tuesday, 24 Apr 2018

Though its a shameful act.. but there will be no sensation as its not BJP rule state...what level of hypocrisy

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February 19,2020

Malappuram (Kerala), Feb 19:  children of a couple in a span of nine years has raised suspicion among police personnel here who have registered a case following a complaint after a three-month-old child of the family died on Tuesday and was buried.

Police exhumed the body, which was buried in the morning, and took it to the district hospital at Tirur for post-mortem.

The infant was the sixth child of the couple, police said.

"A case has been registered (for unnatural death) in the matter to verify the death beyond any suspicion raised by locals since five other children of the couple had died in the past nine years," a senior police official said.

The couple had three boys and three girls of which the third girl child lived till the age of four and the rest died before turning one.

"The post-mortem will take place today itself.We are collecting the medical records of the children who had passed away earlier.

We will identify the cause of death after analysing the records and discuss the matter with forensic doctors," Tirur Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) said.

However, relatives claimed that there was nothing suspicious in the death of the children and that doctors have said it was due to some genetic disease.

"The post-mortem of the third child was conducted and the doctors said the death was due to some genetic problems. They said they were helpless," a relative said, adding that the family was ready to face any probe.

According to the locals, the couple had claimed that the children have died due to epilepsy.

Sources said the baby was taken to a hospital but was dead prior to reaching the hospital early this morning.

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March 5,2020

Kalaburagi, Mar 5: Kalaburagi Police has issued a second notice to AIMIM leader Waris Pathan, for his controversial remark, directing him to appear before the Investigation Officer on March 8 and give his statement.

Earlier, Kalaburagi Police Commissioner MM Nagaraj said that the police had served notice to Pathan and asked him to appear on February 29 before Investigation Officer.

On February 20, while addressing an anti-CAA rally at Kalaburagi, Pathan had said, "time has now come for us to unite and achieve freedom. Remember we are 15 crore but can dominate over 100 crores."

However, Pathan later took back his words and had said he had not targeted any community but had spoken against members of some organisations.

"If any of my words have hurt someone, I take them back as I am a true Indian," he had said.

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July 19,2020

Mangaluru, Jul 19: Palakkad Division of Southern Railway that has jurisdiction over Mangaluru Railway region has established a business development unit (BDU) to cater to the transportation of various sectors, including non-bulk goods traffic, namely, white goods, finished products, manufactured products, agricultural produce and raw material.

In a statement issued here on Sunday said that the BDU’s mandate was to facilitate seamless interaction between the Railways on the one hand and industry, trade representatives and rail freight customers on the other at appropriate zonal or divisional levels. The unit was also expected to help expeditious clearance of their proposals for freight movement.

Palakkad Divisional Railway Manager Pratap Singh Shami established the BDU in line with the similar unit at the zonal level with other divisions of SR too setting up similar units. Palakkad BDU would work under the supervision of Additional DRM-II CT Sakkeer Hussain while Senior Divisional Operations Manager PL Ashok Kumar was its convener with Senior Divisional Commercial Manager Jerin G Anand, Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer KV Sundaresan and Senior Divisional Finance Manager AP Sivachandrar were its members.

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