Ninth murder in city this week
Deceased women was found in pol of blood in her apartment and gold jewellery stolen
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-11-22 05:23 GMT
Chennai: In a case of suspected murder for gain, a 48-year-old woman was killed in her apartment in Vepery near the city police commissioner’s office on Friday evening. Around a kilogram of gold jewellery was stolen from the house, police sources said. Friday’s murder is the ninth in a week in the city, of which four were motivated by gain. As recently as Thursday, a 49-year-old woman, Hemavathy, who was alone at home, was murdered for gain at her apartment in Kolathur.
The deceased was identified as H.Manju Devi, a resident of Kalthiappa street in Vepery. Her husband, Hemaraj Jain, runs an electrical store in Sowcarpet. Preliminary investigations revealed that Manju Devi visited a nearby store and came back to her house around 6 pm. An hour and half later, her daughter Pooja who came to the house saw her mother lying on the floor in a pool of blood in the kitchen. The family stayed on the first floor of the two-storeyed apartment block.
Vepery police rushed to the scene and sent the woman’s body to Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital for a post-mortem. Preliminary investigations suggest that the suspect had followed the woman and gained entry into the house when no one was around. The intruder had broken open the locker and fled with the jewels in a suitcase.
Vepery police have retrieved footage from CCTV cameras, installed in a primary school, opposite the apartment building. “The images show a man getting out of the house around 6.30 pm with a suitcase. Efforts are on to trace his identity. We suspect a known person to be behind the murder,” a police officer said. The Vepery police have registered a case and are investigating. Police also said that two men visited the apartment complex for pest control on Friday and they would be interrogating them too.