Chennai: When the 6-year-old survivor of an armed robbery woke up in pain at home in the Chennai suburb of Kundrathur at 6.30 am on Tuesday, it may not have occurred to her that both her mother and grandmother had been brutally murdered during the night.
Subashree, a Class I student in the same private school where her mother Thenmozhi, (32), worked as a teacher, was carrying her 6-month-old-sister Gunashree when she knocked on the door of a neighbour seeking help to revive her grandmother Vasantha (65), who she believed had only swooned.
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Their neighbour Kanniyappan got wind of the situation and rushed to the home of the children where he found Vasantha lying dead in the hallway and Thenmozhi in the kitchen, both in pools of blood. He alerted the cops about the incident.
It was only a little later that Subashree was able to recall that an armed robbery had taken place during the night, with two women and a man involved. Since there was no forced entry, the police guessed that only acquaintances could have been behind the robbery. The child identified Sathya (25) of Nagalkeni in Pammal, who had assisted the family to clean up the flood-ravaged house during the deluge last December, as one of the robbing party. Subashree had reportedly dozed off after suffering multiple cut injuries on her neck.
DCP (Ambattur) R. Sudhakar conducted spot investigations along with other senior police officials, including ACP Paranthaman. The police located the servant maid quickly and Sathya's alibis fell flat during interrogation.
