Saturday 16 / November / 2024
Muscat: Linson Thomas, the husband of Chikku Robert who was found dead in her apartment in Salalah, is still under police detention, the Indian consular agent in Salalah said.
“As per the latest information available to us on Monday until 3pm, he is still under detention,” Manpreet Singh, the Indian consular agent, said.
“Robert’s body may be flown to India on Tuesday. However, we are not sure whether it will happen or not as some paper work has to be completed from the hospital side where she was working,” he said.
“Embassy has completed whatever has to be done to repatriate the body. Now, the hospital has to take it up,” the consular agent added. Devassy KO, group marketing manager at Badr Al Samaa hospitals, where both Robert and Thomas were working, said Thomas is under police detention as part of the investigation. “We have provided legal assistance,” the hospital official said.
Robert, a nurse from the south Indian state of Kerala, was found dead in her apartment in Salalah with stabbing injuries on her body, late at night on Wednesday.
She was supposed to be on duty by 10pm on Wednesday, but as she did not turn up for work, Thomas, who is also working in the same hospital, went to the apartment to look for her, where he found her dead body.
Robert and Thomas had married in October and she was five months pregnant.
