The police on Wednesday arrested one more person in connection with the suspected murder-suicide of two children and their mother at a police quarters in Alappuzha last month.
The arrested was identified as Shahana (24), of Lajaneth ward, Alappuzha municipality.
Najeela (28) and two children—Tippu Sultan (5) and one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Malala—were found dead on May 10. The probe revealed that the woman had ended her life after killing the two children. A day after the trio were found dead, the police arrested her husband, Rameez, a civil police officer and booked him under Sections 498A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code.