SIT will get custody of youth accused of abetting womans suicide

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the loss of life of a 23-year-old lady at Kothamangalam has taken into custody Rameez, 24, the prime accused who was arrested and remanded on expenses of abetting her suicide. The police staff on Tuesday (August 19, 2025) took Rameez to varied places, together with locations the place he met the sufferer once they had been allegedly in a relationship, for proof assortment.

This comes a day after his dad and mom and a pal, arraigned as co-accused, had been arrested from Salem in Tamil Nadu.

An officer concerned within the investigation mentioned that the SIT will resolve if custody of different accused should be sought based mostly on additional interrogation of Rameez and his statements.

Rameez’s dad and mom Rahimon Yousuf and Shareena, and his pal Abdul Sahad had been arrested from a lodge close to Salem in Tamil Nadu on Monday (August 18) morning. They have been charged with Section 108 (abetment to suicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

The case of unnatural loss of life was registered after the lady was discovered useless in her home at Kothamangalam on August 9. The case took a political flip after an alleged suicide observe written by the sufferer talked about that Rameez by his household pressured her for spiritual conversion as a precondition for marrying her.

The SIT, headed by Muvattupuzha DySP, was fashioned after the household of the sufferer petitioned the Chief Minister and the State Police Chief demanding a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the incident.

In her petition, the sufferer’s mom alleged that her daughter was locked up by the accused and household of their home and was bodily assaulted, as reportedly talked about in her suicide observe.

Rameez was booked below the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Sections 69 (sexual activity by using deceitful means and so forth), 108 (abetment to suicide), and 115 (voluntarily inflicting harm).

(Suicide Prevention Helpline: DISHA – 1056, Maithri – 0484-2540530).