Kozhikode. A shocking incident has come to light in Kozhikode district of Kerala on Friday. Interpol has issued a Blue Corner Notice against an accused person in a domestic assault case. Actually, the man against whom the notice has been issued is accused of attacking his newly married wife and trying to kill her. The accused person works in Germany and it is suspected that he might have fled the country.
A senior Kozhikode police officer confirmed that the Blue Corner Notice has been issued and is effective from Thursday. He said, ‘A request was made to Interpol through the Ministry of External Affairs to release it.’ Blue Corner Notices are issued by Interpol to collect additional information from its member countries about the identity, location or activities of a person in connection with a crime. The Blue Corner Notice has come in the wake of the lookout circular that the police had issued against the woman’s accused husband Rahul P Gopal.
In Kozhikode district of Kerala on Tuesday, a newlywed and her family accused the accused of brutally assaulting her for dowry and attempting to kill her, although the woman’s in-laws rejected these allegations. The mother of accused Gopal had claimed that her daughter-in-law was refusing to live in her in-laws’ house and this led to an argument between the couple and later a fight.
The mother of the accused said, ‘We never demanded dowry because we do not need it.’ Apart from the police action, Kerala Women Commission (KWC) and State Human Rights Commission are also looking into the matter and have sought a report from the investigating agency. Kerala Women’s Commission also criticized the police for not taking the woman’s complaint seriously.
The woman had alleged that the police in Pantheerankavu did not register a case of attempt to murder even though her complaint clearly stated that her husband had tried to strangulate her with the charging cable of a mobile phone. The woman’s in-laws house is in Pantheerankavu. The woman and her family had also alleged that the police tried to hush up the matter. A new investigation team has been formed after the police was criticized by the opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front and others in the state.
Tags: Kerala Crime News, Kozhikode News
FIRST PUBLISHED: May 17, 2024, 22:23 IST