BOTH ACCUSED HELD GUILTY IN KERALA
On Friday almost after four years of murder of a Latvian tourist in Kerala State, court held both the victim in the case guilty. On March, 2018, The 33-year-old tourist was found missing and her body. Both the accused have been found guilty on all charges on them, news agency ANI reported. The incident had shockwaves across the nation.
Woman’s sister had approached the high court, last year to seek an order for speeding up the trial in the case. “I want justice for my sister. But things are moving at a snail’s pace. Many assurances were given to me earlier, but all fell flat,” she had said at the time.
In 2018, both the sisters had come to Kerala for an Ayurveda treatment. The 33-year-old women was the elder among the two. She had gone missing in March and her body was found in isolated spot near Kovalam beach on April 21, it was identified by victim's sister.
In 2018, May, An unauthorised tourist guide was identified as P Udayan and another Umesh, a drup peddler, were arrested, and the case had been on dragging over since
The woman came on February, 2018 and the woman had gone missing from an Ayurveda hospital on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram where she had come along with her male companion and sister.
The men, now convicted in the case, were accused of strangling her, fearing she will alert police. They had also tried to change it as a suicide and tied her body on a tree meticulously.
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