CHENNAI: In a fresh development in the Adyar triple murder case, police on Friday said the post-mortem examination of the slain migrant worker's wife Munita Kumari (22), found no signs of sexual assault.
According to a report in Daily Thanthi, the autopsy was conducted at the Government Royapettah Hospital on January 31, 2026. It concluded that Munita Kumari died due to a head injury caused by being struck with an iron rod.
The case came to light after Gaurav Kumar (24), a native of Nalanda district in Bihar, was found murdered and stuffed into a gunny bag that was dumped at Indira Nagar First Avenue in Adyar on January 26.
Following the discovery, Adyar police arrested three men from Bihar's Nalanda district — security guard Sikandar alias Satyendar (30), Lalith Yadav (40), and Vikash Kumar (24) — and remanded them in judicial custody.
During interrogation, the accused allegedly confessed to killing Gaurav Kumar, his wife Munita Kumari, and their two-year-old son Birmanee Kumar.
The child’s body was later recovered from the Buckingham Canal beneath the Madhya Kailash railway bridge, while Munita Kumari’s body was found at the Perungudi dump yard after an extensive three-day search involving more than 100 police personnel and Greater Chennai Corporation workers using earth-moving machinery.
Police said investigators had earlier suspected a sexual assault attempt as a possible motive, but the post-mortem findings have now ruled out sexual assault and confirmed fatal head trauma as the cause of death.
