3, including wife, daughter held in connection with man’s murder

TRICHY: Three months after a 45-year-old man was murdered in Pudukkottai, one of the main accused in connection with the case surrendered in a court in Thiruthuraipoondi in Thiruvarur district on Tuesday. The government railway police (GRP), Trichy division had already arrested the wife and daughter of the murdered man. Krishnamoorthy was reportedly murdered by his wife and daughter with help from their respective lovers as the former had objected to their affairs.
Veerachozhan, 38, a resident of Nagapattinam surrendered at the Thiruthuraipoondi court on Tuesday morning for murdering T Krishnamoorthy, 45, of Namanasamudram on February 25. He was later remanded in custody. The GRP will take him into its custody with the court’s permission and the case will be handed over the Pudukkottai police as the scene of crime came under their jurisdiction.
The GRP in Karaikudi registered a case and included Veerachozhan as an accused along with K Vasanthi, 40, wife of Krishnamoorthy, their 17-year-old daughter and her lover Raja, 25, for allegedly murdering the man.
Earlier, Vasanthi was arrested on Sunday after she admitted to have killed her husband.
Further investigation led to the arrest of the victim’s first daughter on Monday as she was also found to be one of the murderers.
Interestingly, it was the accused daughter and her sister who had lodged a complaint with the Trichy GRP last week claiming that their father was suffocated to death by their mother and her paramour, after he objected to their affair.
Initially, Krishnamoorthy’s death was registered as an accident as his mutilated body was found on a railway track behind his house on February 26. Krishnamoorthy’s mother C Singammal and his daughters lodged a complaint with the GRP police alleging that he was murdered by Vasanthi and her paramour Veerachozhan and the body thrown on the railway track.
Taking the complaint into account, GRP took up the investigation and found the four involved in the murder. GRP has exuded confidence that Raja also would be caught soon.