The death of his 18-year-old daughter Mishel Shaji Varghese should be probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), her father Shaji Varghese told the media here on Monday.
Mr. Varghese said that even seven years after his daughter’s death, the probe had not reached anywhere. Mishel, a native of Elanji in Piravom doing her CA, was staying at a hostel near Kacheripady. She had left the hostel on the evening of March 5, 2017, reportedly on her way to the Novena church at Kaloor. The police later recovered her body from the Kochi backwaters near the Ernakulam wharf around 8.45 p.m. the next day.
According to the police, the victim had jumped off the Goshree bridge. Mr. Varghese said the family had petitioned the police about her disappearance on March 5, but the first information report was dated March 6, which he accused was gross negligence on the part of the police.
