Kochi: The Crime Branch will question Jisha murder suspect Ameerul Islam in connection with the murder of a woman near Moovattupuzha four years ago.
Islam’s mother Khadija’s statements that suggested that her son came to Kerala six years ago prompted the police to probe his role in the murder of Shoji (34), who was found with her throat slit in her house at Mathirappalli on August 8, 2012.
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Islam, a laborer from Assam, was nabbed from his workplace in Tamil Nadu last week in connection with the horrific murder of Jisha in her house near Perumbavoor on April 28.
The similarities between the murders of Jisha and Shoji and the proximity between the two crime scenes have brought Islam under a cloud of doubt.
He will be questioned by the Crime Branch after the collection of evidence in the Jisha murder case.
Shoji was alone in her house when the killer struck. Her husband Shaji was away in his shop at Kothamangalam and her children had gone to school.
Two construction laborers working on the second floor of the house had gone on a tea break when Shoji was killed, the police suspect. When they returned, two men were waiting at the ayurveda medical shop Shoji was running at her house near the Mathirappalli Ayurveda Hospital.
They found the woman lying on a mat inside the room. Her throat was slit.
The Crime Branch had received information that a migrant laborer named Ameer was working near Kothamangalam at the time of the murder. He had gone missing since then. The police probe reached a range of suspects from Shoji’s relatives to Maoists. A Bengali worker employed by Shaji was also investigated but without any result.
Jisha’s and Shoji’s murders have some striking similarities, the police think. The killer came for Shoji in broad daylight and left the scene in 15 minutes.