15 months on, wife, 4 others held for man’s murder

The Bagayam police on Wednesday cracked the murder of a 28-year-old woman by detecting that the wife of the victim staged a drama to hide evidences and to evade the investigators. Following this, the police arrested the woman along with five of her associates. Police said, Venkat Yuvaraj (28), a resident of Palavansathu Kuppam in Vellore town, husband of Gomathi (23), went missing on November 8, 2017. Subsequently, Gomathi lodged a ‘man missing’ complaint with the Bagayam police. Acting on the complaint, police began inquiries to trace Yuvaraj but failed to make headway in the case.

After more than 15 months, police found out that Rajkumar (40), a paramour of Gomathi, along with his friends, Senthil (33), Velu (32), Koteswaran (38) and Vijay (23), murdered Yuvaraj near the Mordana dam located near Gudiyattam. Further investigations revealed that Gomathi developed an affair with Rajkumar and when Yuvaraj came to know about this, he stopped her from going to work. Yuvaraj also prevented her from talking to Rajkumar. This enraged Gomathiand hence she plotted to kill her husband. Senthil, one of the friends of Rajkumar, befriended Yuvaraj by posing as an ex-serviceman and supplied him liquor. This continued for two months and finally when Senthil ran out of cash by feeding Yuvaraj, Rajkumar decided to kill him. The gang took Yuvaraj to Mordana dam fed liquor and strangulated him to death.

With the leads given by the accused, police recovered Yuvaraj’s skeleton along with his pants and an empty liquor bottle from the bushes near the dam. Based on Rajkumar’s confession, police arrested his friends and all five were remanded to custody.

A 40-year-old farmer was found dead with the reproductive organ chopped off, close to an irrigation tank near Tirupattur on Tuesday night. Police suspect that the farmer could have been murdered due to rivalry over an illicit affair. Police said, Sivakumar (40), a resident of AK Mottur and a flower grower, was returning home on Tuesday night. On the way, he was waylaid and stabbed by a gang of unidentified persons near an irrigation tank. Sivakumar succumbed on the spot. The gang had also chopped his private part. On information, Tirupattur police rushed to the spot and sent the body to Tirupattur GH for post-mortem. Investigations revealed that Sivakumar was in a relationship with a woman worker of his farm. The woman also had an affair with a contractor residing in nearby Poonkulam village. Police registered a case and have picked up the contractor for interrogation.