Perumbavoor: The police have reconstituted the team investigating the Kuruppumpadi Jisha murder case.
The case will now be probed by the 80-member team, comprising 10 circle inspectors and five deputy superintendents of police.
Additional director general of police K. Padmakumar will supervise the team headed by crime detachment DySP M. Jijimon.
The probe has once again focused on migrant labourers. Police have interrogated those labourers who regularly took the canal road near Jisha’s house.
The investigators have approached the court for getting back a pair of footwear found on the canal road. Earlier, the presence of cement was found in the footwear.
Meanwhile, police gave released five persons detained on the basis of suspicion. Two others—a close relative of the deceased and a neighbour—are still in custody.
ADGP Padmakumar said the probe is in its final stage.
A migrant labourer who helped killing a snake that had crawled into Jisha’s house three months ago, too, is under police observation.
Meanwhile, Union Minister for Social Welfare Thawar Chand Ghelot said the Jisha murder case would be raised in the Rajya Sabha.
Speaking to the media, Ghelot said a high-level meeting at Aluva Palace had demanded that a case under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act should also be registered.