Kochi: Martin Joseph to be in police custody till Monday

KOCHI: City police probing the torture case, in which a woman was restrained and brutally tortured in an apartment at Marine Drive, on Friday received prime accused Martin Joseph in custody till Monday.
Martin who was taken to crime scenes in Kochi and the locations he hid in Thrissur was produced before the magistrate court in Kochi on expiry of his police custody on Friday.The investigation team sought his further custody claiming that he has to be interrogated more. Considering the plea, the court granted further custody.
Earlier, he was granted in four-day custody on Tuesday. According to police, the accused was in a live-in relationship with the survivor for several months before he allegedly became violent and started torturing her.