Perumbavur (Kerala): Six days after the brutal incident of rape and murder of a 30-year-old dalit woman, the police on Wednesday, filed an application before the Kuruppampadi Judicial First Class Magistrate Court to incorporate rape charges (section 376) in the FIR.
A sketch of the suspect has been released by the police, though nobody has been arrested so far for the attack.
The victim’s mother had earlier told that she had lodged complaint at the local police station citing threat to her life and her children, but no action was taken.
The special investigation team included the new section only after it received the post-mortem report on Wednesday though an amendment in CrPC in 2013 expanded the definition of ‘rape’ to include forced penetration of vagina with a foreign object, not necessarily a male body part.
The police sources said that the body was badly mutilated. The five-page post-mortem report said that the woman suffered a fatal injury across her chest of 13-cm length that reaches till her liver. The victim was tortured with a sharp weapon pushed inside her vagina which pierced her uterus and eventually her intestines came out.
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan Achuthanandan visited the woman’s mother who is undergoing treatment at the Taluk hospital in Perumbavoor.
