A medical student from Kerala was killed in Uzbekistan, allegedly by her classmate, who is also from the state.
The victim’s family has further alleged in a police complaint filed in Kerala that she was being forced into religious conversion.
The victim has been identified as Sawariya Basanth, 21, a native of Harippad in Alappuzha district.
She was a first-year medical student at Bukhara State Medical Institute in Uzbekistan.
Sawariya’s body was flown to Kerala, where a second postmortem was conducted Thursday following a complaint from her family.
A medical student from Kerala was killed in Uzbekistan, allegedly by her classmate, who is also from the state. The victim’s family has further alleged in a police complaint filed in Kerala that she was being forced into religious conversion.
The victim has been identified as Sawariya Basanth, 21, a native of Harippad in Alappuzha district. She was a first-year medical student at Bukhara State Medical Institute in Uzbekistan.
The alleged accused, Sadarul Anam, 22, is a native of Pulamanthol in Malappuram district. He was arrested following the incident. Sawariya’s body was flown to Kerala, where a second postmortem was conducted Thursday following a complaint from her family.
