Yasmin Ahmed, the 29-year old woman from Bihar, has confessed to the police that she was influenced by the values professed by Islamic fundamental groups after her association with her second husband, Abdul Rashid Abdulla, who is among the 17 persons reported missing from the district.
Yasmin, along with her 4-year-old son, was sent to police custody for three days on Friday. She was arrested on August 1. Yasmin had developed a relationship with Rashid, a native of Udumbumthala locality in Thrikkarippur, while they were working as faculty members at Peace International School at Kottakkal two years ago. She got estranged from her husband and chose to live with Rashid along with her young son.
Yasmin, who was educated in Bengaluru and in a Gulf nation, was fluent in English and Hindi. Police sources said she had lived with Rashid in Patna for a while after quitting her assignment at the Kottakkal school before she moved to a rented accommodation at Okhla in New Delhi in the company of her relatives.
The police attempted to contact her relatives in Mauroni in Bihar, but failed to get any response possibly out of fear of getting embroiled in the issue, said Kanhangad Dy.SP K.K. Sunil Babu.
The woman told the police that she did not want to continue her association with Rashid, he added.
Yasmin would be handed over to the District Session Court here on Monday after the expiry of her police remand, he said.
