CHENNAI: Less than 12 hours after a couple running a working women's hostel in Kottivakkam was bludgeoned to death by a construction worker, Chennai police claim to have cracked the case by securing one of the murder suspects in the wee hours of Wednesday.
The alleged killer has been identified as Alam Bhai from Kolkata who had taken up the job of laying tiles on the flat the elderly couple was living. The couple, Mayandi (72) and Vallinayagai (65), was staying alone in their house at Ramalingapuram in Kottivakkam at the time of the incident.
According to police, on Tuesday Alam Bhai was upset that the deceased man had not settled his bills for laying tiles in the house and in the agitation; he picked up a wooden log and smashed his head and fled the scene. He also smashed the head of the old woman too.
The neighbours who had seen a group of unidentified people running out of the flat rushed to check all the houses. To their horror, the elderly couple was lying amid a pool of blood on the third floor of the building. At around 8:30 pm, they alerted the police control room. After the bodies were sent to a government hospital for post-mortem, the search for the murderers began.
Police said they solved the case with the help of the CCTV camera footage recorded in the building and they narrowed down on the suspect from his house in Athipattu near Minjur early on Wednesday.
During the investigation, Alam had told the police that he was agitated when the couple did not settle the bills. So, he murdered them and also burgled 13 sovereigns gold jewels. The police has launched a search for his accomplice, Daadi Bhai and said the exact motive of the murder could be ascertained only after he is nabbed. Meanwhile, higher officials lauded Kottivakkam police for solving the murder and also asked senior citizens to be in touch with the police department to prevent such mishaps.
