Anil Kumar, the prime suspect in the murder of Liga Skromane, has revealed that four people currently in police custody had admitted to him that they had seen the murdered Latvian woman.
All of them are suspected to be members of a drug gang and are under the scanner for their alleged involvement in Liga's murder, who was in Thiruvananthapuram for medical treatment and went missing from Kovalam on March 14.
According to Anil, who was let off by the police on Sunday, the four people are drug pushers and frequented the area where Liga's decapitated rotting body was found on April 21.
Anil, a yoga expert, was taken into custody and questioned for two days by cops in connection with Liga's murder. After the questioning, he was released on Saturday, following which he appeared before Manorama News and denied the charges levelled against him.
Anil, who is also a non-registered tourist guide, admitted that he was in Thiruvananthapuram the day Liga went missing.
Four in custody
The police are still grilling the four suspects, including two brothers from Panathura's Vadakke Kunnu. All of them have made inconsistent statements regrading Liga's death and are history-sheeters with several cases registered against them.
Police investigation has also revealed that the suspects were not present at the places they claimed to be during the time the crime was allegedly committed.
Despite leads, the police still do not have any concrete evidence to nail the suspects.
What police say
According to the police, Liga is believed to have met the Yoga instructor in Kovalam. Liga, being quite a friendly and gullible woman, could have been persuaded by Anil to tag along with him and his two friends to take a fibre boat or ferry to Chenthilakkari. There, the men got drunk, but Liga did not join them. During this time, they attacked Liga, who resisted their advances.
Enraged, they could have brutally attacked Liga, pushed her down and kicked her on the neck. The autopsy revealed that it was a fatal injury to her neck that killed her. This injury may have been caused in this attack.
Alternatively, they could have strangulated Liga and tried to hang her body from a tree to pass it off as suicide, but the corpse fell while it was being hauled up. The position of the body justifies this.
The examination of tree branches and other materials led the cops to believe that there was an attempt to hang Liga's body to fabricate a suicide story.