Tamil Nadu police cracks blind murder case after youth's skeleton recovered in Tenkasi; three of family arrested

Police said that investigation revealed that the day the slain's body was found in a septic tank, the accused went to Coimbatore which made the police suspect foul.

Tenkasi: Police on Thursday claimed to have cracked a blind murder case in Tenkasi district of Tamil Nadu by arresting a young woman along with her mother and brother, officials said. The accused have been identified as Pachiyammal, her mother Ishakiyammal and brother Thangapandi. The trio was arrested by the Tamil Nadu Police from Coimbatore where they were hiding after the alleged murder.

The arrests have been made in connection with the recovery of a skeleton from the septic tank of one Narayanan at Ilattur area in Tenkasi district on Jun. 4. Following the incident, Iattur police registered a case and launched an investigation into the matter. The skeleton was later found to be that of missing youth Madhu alias Madasamy from Ilattur area, whose family had lodged a missing complaint with the Ilattur Police Station.

The DNA sampling of the skeleton confirmed it to be that of Madhu. A police official said that the day when college student Madhu went missing, the arrested accused, also hailing from the same area went to Coimbatore. Accordingly, the Ilattur Police team rushed to Coimbatore and took Pachiyammal, her mother Ishakiyammal and her brother Thangapandi into custody.

In the subsequent interrogation, the trio revealed chilling details, police said. An official said that it was revealed that slain Madhu was in an illicit relationship with Pachiyammal (24), who was married in his neighbourhood. Police said that Madhu had shot an obscene video of Pachiyammal and would later blackmail her with the video to continue the physical relation with him.

At one point, Pachiyammal, told her mother about the matter after which both of them hatched conspiracy to kill him, police said. To execute the murder, Ishakiyammal called Madhu to meet her at a desolate place where she tied Madhu's hands and feet and suffocated him to death with a pillow, added police. Later, Pachiyammal and her mother Ishakhyammal with the help of her brother Thangapandi dumped the body in the septic tank of Lakshmanan's house to conceal their murder, police said.

The trio were produced before Sengottai court which remanded them to police custody.