There were no lapses on the part of police in the probe into the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl at Vandiperiyar, Circle Inspector T.D. Sunilkumar, investigation officer, has said.
Mr. Sunilkumar told the media on Friday that the incident had occurred on June 30, 2021. “The police sealed the room of the ‘layam’ (cluster home) the same day itself. An inquest was carried out in the presence of scientific and fingerprint experts, and the ‘mahasar’ was prepared the next morning. The scientific expert handed over the blood samples in a sealed cover and the crime scene had no other blood samples,” said the official.
Special prosecutor Sunil Maheshwaran Pillai said the next step was to file an appeal before the High Court. “The appeal will be filed in the coming days. The prosecution wants to ensure justice to the victim. The court had found that it was a murder and that the child was sexually assaulted before the murder,“ he said.
