Search for 2 more Sappani victims futile

Police were still clueless about the number of murders he had committed while the missing cases of his victims were altered as murder cases in the Tiruverumbur police station.

After his confession, the Tiruvembur police exhumed six bodies from Krishnasamudram near Tiruchy recently and a three-day custody extension was sought for finding out two more bodies. 

Sappani confessed to the police that he had chopped the bodies of Arputhasamy, a retired railway employee in 2013 and Periyasamy, in 2009, for cash and discarded them across the NIT, Tiruchy campus. Based on his confession, police organised a search operation on NIT, campus, on Wednesday but they could locate only animal bones. Fed up police stopped their search operations. With this the police were in a fix whether they have to register a case against him for six murders or eight murders. 

According to a police official, they cannot charge eight murders unless they identify the bodies. Police were investigating Sappani’s aide, the temple priest Chellappa and other priest who practises black magic.