Murdered Trichy jewellery store employee's body exhumed

TRICHY: The body of a Trichy

jewellery store

employee who was murdered and buried by a gang for on Sunday was exhumed on Tuesday morning based on the confession of the key accused in the case.

The gang murdered Martin Jayaraj, 42, of Puthur to rob 1.5 kg

gold

ornaments he was carrying.

On Monday, the Woraiyur police nabbed prime accused S Prasanth, 26, of Thiruvanaikovil and his accomplices P Prasanth, 26, of Keezhakurichi in Trichy, S Selva alias Senthilkumar, 19, G Praveen, 20, M Arivalagan, 20, M Aravind, 23 and V Vikaram, 21 of Azhagiya Manavalam.

On Tuesday morning, the police and revenue officials exhumed the body from secluded place at Azhagiya Manavalam near Mannachanallur. Doctors performed postmortem on the body. Later, the body was handed over to his relatives.