Kerala HC on Monday upheld a trial court’s death sentence to Muhammed Ameer-ul-Islama migrant labourer from Assam, in the brutal rape and murder of a 30-year-old Dalit law student in Ernakulam’s Perumbavoor in 2016. HC upheld the trial court’s observation that the case fell into the category of “rarest of rare” and termed the crime “an egregious violation of human dignity and sanctity of life”.The bench, which considered a death sentence review petition, pointed out the crime was cold-blooded murder without provocation. The LLB student was found murdered at her house in Perumbavoor’s Kuruppampady on April 28, 2016. Ameer was arrested from Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu on June 16. Earlier, Ameer was found guilty of murder, rape, trespass and wrongful confinement by a special court for SCs/STs on Dec 12, 2017.
