Chennai police crack murder of Kilpauk Medical College student, arrest youth

CHENNAI: The Chennai city police on Sunday claimed to have cracked the murder of a postgraduate student at Kilpauk Medical College by arresting a 22-year-old B Tech student.
Police said D Harindham, hailing from Tripura and studying at Dr MGR Educational and Research Institute at Maduravoyal, killed the medico, S Sathya, while he was trying to steal her mobile phone on Thursday.
Harindham was residing on the second floor of a house where Sathya was staying on rent. Sathya, who was sleeping in the house, caught him red-handed when he tried to steal her phone. When she raised an alarm, he killed her by slitting her throat with a knife and escaped with her cellphone, according to the police.
The police nabbed him by tracing the IMEI (international mobile equipment identity) number of the cellphone.
Harindham had sold the mobile phone to a cellphone shop owner at Koyambedu. The shop owner had taken his photo on suspicion that it could be a stolen mobile phone, the police said.