[Kerala Human Sacrifice] Three accused move Kerala High Court against order granting police custody

The three accused persons in the now infamous human sacrifice case have approached the Kerala High Court challenging the order of a Magistrate Court that had granted the police custody of the accused for 12 days..On October 13, Judicial First Class Magistrate Eldose Mathew had remanded the accused, Muhammed Shafi (alias Rashid), Bhagaval Singh, and Laila Bhagawal Singh, to 12 days police custody.Just a day prior, the same court had remanded them to 14 days judicial custody. The period of police custody will end on October 24.All three accused, represented by advocate BA Aloor, have approached the High Court with a revision petition challenging the said order..The news of human sacrifice came to light in the State when the dismembered bodies of two women were recovered on Tuesday from Thiruvalla in Pathanamthitta district.It was an investigation into two missing women that led State police to a human sacrifice ring.The two women were lottery ticket sellers in Ernakulam and they went missing in June and September this year. Neither women had families in Kerala.Three persons were apprehended this week for the alleged murder of the women, believed to have been committed as part of an act of human sacrifice.The police arrested one Rashid for allegedly for arranging the abduction and committing the sacrificial murder. The other accused, married couple Bhagaval Singh and Laila, were also taken into custody for suspicion of having commissioned and taken part in the sacrificial murder.The police allegations stated that Shafi had lured the women under the pretext of offering them lumpsums in cash for doing sex work and acting in some porn films. Shafi had allegedly contacted the Singhs on social media and a plan to commit human sacrifice, supposedly for financial prosperity was hatched. The women were then taken to the Singh's home where they were allegedly murdered in a gruesome manner, dismembered and buried in the yard of the house.