When Jisha murder accused Ameer ul-Islam was produced at a court in Kochi. Onmanorama/File photoKochi: Ameer ul-Islam may not have been the only intruder in Jisha’s house when the dalit girl was murdered. A couple of fingerprints found on a plastic fishbowl in her home did not match with any of Islam’s fingers.
This finding could have weakened the Kerala police case but for the DNA test which established the Assamese labourer’s presence in the house.
The latest theory goes like this: Islam stabbed Jisha while the yet-to-be-identified man tried to hit her with a cement brick.
Jisha and her mother had stacked three bricks each to support a wooden plank, which they used as a bench. Jisha had placed a fishbowl on the side of the bench. The cement-coated fingerprints suggest that the attacker left his mark while trying to lift a brick.
The police had matched the prints against about 5,000 men, including neighbors and the cops who took away Jisha’s body for post-mortem. None of them proved a match, leading the police to believe that the prints belonged to the murderer.
The 23-year-old Ameer ul-Islam, a native of Assam, has been lodged in Kakkanad sub-jail after a magistrate court in Perumbavoor remanded him into 14-days judicial custody.
The accused was arrested on June 16 for allegedly killing the law student, 50 days after the gruesome incident, that had become a major issue in the recent Kerala Assembly elections.
The woman who hailed from a poor family, was raped and brutally assaulted using sharp-edged weapons before being murdered at her house on April 28.
