Cops fail to get any leads in mutilated body case

The deceased, identified as Vasudevan (72), was a priest from Perungalathur. His head and chest were found along the Tambaram bypass road on Wednesday while the rest of the body was found in a stormwater drain in Padi on Tuesday. The investigators had sent both sets of body parts to the Government Royapettah Hospital, where doctors found that they belonged to the same person. The police had registered a case of unnatural death. 

“The doctors at Government Royapettah Hospital are carrying out a post mortem and the report will ascertain the cause of death,” said a top police official. On Thursday, police sources had claimed that Vasudevan’s body could have been cut into two using a chain saw. Police sources had said also that the murder could have taken place elsewhere and the body parts could have been dumped here.Now, the police say they do not know the ‘motive for the killing’.

The investigations are under way, they added. On the day of his death, Vasudevan was heading to the city from Tambaram and had decided to walk instead to taking a public transport, the police said. It may be recalled that on Tuesday morning, residents of Ilango Nagar in Padi found the lower torso of a man, wrapped in a cloth with blood stains on it, inside a roadside canal and alerted the police. A police team led by Inspector Balamurali came to the spot and sent the body parts to the Government Kilpauk Medical College. On Wednesday, police received information about the head and torso along the Tambaram bypass. The body parts were badly injured.