Engineer, son found charred to death

Chennai: In what appeared to be a case of suicide, a 47-year-old man and his 10-year-old

son

were

found

charred to death in their house in Adambakkam on Monday.

The deceased were identified as Paari of Balaji Nagar in Adambakkam, a civil engineer, and his son Bala Murugan, 10, a Class V student of a private school. Police said his wife Rajabalambika, 42, an engineer herself, was working in a private firm in Saidapet. The husband and wife were living separately since the last few months.

Rajabalambika was staying in Adambakkam along with her son. On Monday morning Paari took Bala to his house promising to take him to the Marina beach.

In the afternoon, neighbours noticed smoke billowing from Paari’s house and alerted police and fire services, who broke open the door and found the father and son lying

dead

. Police sent the bodies for postmortem.

During inquiry, police found an envelope that Paari had given to his house-owner before his death, which had Rs 3,000 for their funeral expenses.


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