CHENNAI: With relatives expressing their inability to bear the expenses of transporting the bodies and performing the final rites of the deceased woman and child in the Bihar migrant family murder case, Chennai police have approached charitable organisations in Bihar seeking assistance.
According to a Thanthi TV report, the victims’ extended family informed the police that they did not have the financial means to take the bodies to their native place or conduct the funeral ceremonies. Following this, the police began coordinating with non-governmental organisations in Bihar to ensure that the last rites are performed with due dignity.
The case pertains to the murder of a migrant family from Nalanda district in Bihar. The investigation began on Republic Day after the body of a 24-year-old man was found stuffed inside a gunny bag along First Avenue in Indira Nagar, Adyar. He had reportedly returned to Chennai on January 21 in search of work and had earlier been employed as a security guard in Sriperumbudur.
Subsequent inquiries led to the detention of three suspects — Lalit Prasad (42), Vikas Yadav (24), and Satyendran alias Santhosh Kumar (33), all natives of Nalanda — who allegedly confessed to killing the man’s wife and their two-year-old son as well. The child’s body was later recovered near the Buckingham Canal close to the CIT campus in Taramani.
Police later traced the woman’s remains to the Perungudi dump yard after learning that her body had been stuffed into a sack and discarded in a garbage bin, which was subsequently cleared along with municipal waste. With assistance from Greater Chennai Corporation officials, a search operation using earthmovers was carried out for three days before the sack containing the decomposed body was finally recovered.