Anil Kumar, a yoga trainer has been the prime suspect in the murder of Latvian tourist Liga: File photoThiruvananthapuram: Yoga instructor Anil Kumar, the prime suspect in the murder of Liga Skromane, has revealed that four people in police custody currently 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 is under the scanner for alleged involvement in the murder of the chronically depressed medical tourist who went missing from Kovalam on March 14.
According to Anil, who was let off by the police Sunday, the four people are drug pushers and frequented the area where the decapitated rotting body was found on April 21.
He also said that many people had seen the woman and the body after her death.
Anil Kumar was taken into custody and questioned for two days by cops in connection with the murder of Liga. He was released Saturday after questioning when he appeared before Manorama and denied the charges leveled 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 four suspects, including two brothers from Panathura's Vadakke Kunnu. All of them have made inconsistent statements regrading the woman's death and are history sheeters with several cases registered against them.
Police enquiry has also revelaed 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 that can nail the suspects.
What police say
Liga must have met the Yoga instructor at Kovalam. Quite a friendly and gullible woman, he could have taken her into confidence very soon.
He could have persuaded her to travel along with him and his two friends in a fibre boat or ferry to Chenthilakkari.
There, the men got drunk while Liga stayed off. In between, they attacked Liga, who resisted strongly.
Enraged, they could have brutally attacked her, pushing her to the floor and kicking her on her neck. The autopsy had revealed that it was a fatal injury to her neck that had killed her. This injury could have been caused in this attack.
Alternatively, they could have strangulated her and tried to hang the body from a tree to pass it off as a suicide, but the corpse fell while it was being hauled up.
The upside-down 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 her body to fabricate a suicide story.
