Stalker who shot dead Kerala dental student procured pistol from Bihar

Speaking to reporters after visiting Manasa’s grieving family at Payyambalam in Kannur, Govindan on Sunday termed the incident a ‘north Indian-model murder’.
Rakhil and Manasa
Rakhil and Manasa

KANNUR: The stalker who shot dead a dental student in Kochi before killing himself on Friday procured the pistol from Bihar with the help a migrant labourer whom he employed in his interior design work, according to minister M V Govindan. 

Rakhil, a 32-year-old man, entered the house where 24-year-old P V Manasa from Kannur was living as a ‘paid guest’ along with three other collegemates in Kothamangalam on Friday and shot her at point-blank range, before killing himself by firing the pistol on his head.

Speaking to reporters after visiting Manasa’s grieving family at Payyambalam in Kannur, Govindan on Sunday termed the incident a ‘north Indian-model murder’.

He said the police have got enough evidence that the accused travelled with another person to Bihar to procure the pistol, which was used in the crime. Rakhil also got training to use the gun from a remote Bihar village, the minister said, and added that a police team would travel to the north Indian state to collect more evidence.

“Rakhil and one of his friends had visited some remote villages in Bihar and had got the gun from there,” the minister said. Meanwhile, the police investigating the case have found that the stalker visited Bihar between July 12 and 22. “Rakhil, according to information, left Kothamangalam on July 8.

He travelled to Bihar on July 12 and returned on July 22. He reached Kothamangalam the next day. So he could have procured the pistol during his Bihar visit,” said a polic officer.

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