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The Thiruvananthapuram Rural constabulary investigating the decease of a two-year-old miss recorded the apprehension of Sreethu, the parent of the girl, Devendu, who was recovered dormant successful a good astatine Balaramapuram connected January 30. The apprehension came adjacent to 9 months aft the transgression was committed. The Balaramapuram constabulary confirmed 29-year-old Sreethu’s engagement successful the decease of her child.
Soon aft the decease of the miss child, the constabulary arrested the maternal uncle of the child, identified arsenic Harikumar, who confessed to the transgression and admitted that helium threw the kid into the good owed to enmity towards Sreethu. However, the constabulary had been examining the relation of the parent successful the crime, arsenic the forensic introspection of the mobile phones of some Sreethu and Harikumar aboriginal provided hints of a narration betwixt them and her engagement successful the crime.
Sreethu, who was earlier arrested for conning ₹10 lakh from a idiosyncratic by promising a occupation successful the Devaswom Board and had been released connected bail, was taken into custody from Palakkad and brought to the Balaramapuram constabulary station.
According to the police, the custodial interrogation of the parent is required against the backdrop of the technological grounds against her. She had been refusing a polygraph test, portion Harikumar was subjected to the lie-detection test.
Her refusal raised constabulary suspicion astir Sreethu’s engagement successful the crime, which yet led to her arrest. A DNA trial has besides confirmed that Sreethu’s husband, Sreejith, was not the begetter of the child, and helium had nary engagement successful the case.
Only a elaborate interrogation is expected to spill the beans astir the motives down the murder, the constabulary said. According to police, it was Sreethu who archetypal alerted her parent that her daughter, who had been sleeping with her, was missing connected January 30.
Harikumar was besides sleeping successful the adjacent country connected the time of the crime. Later, a hunt by locals and household members recovered the girl’s assemblage successful the good of their rented house.
