Chennai police make headway in VP murder case

Chennai: In what was believed to be the first murder in fallout of a corporate ladder race here in the city, the police claimed to have obtained definite clues to solve the murder of Venkateshwaralu, vice-president of a Gujarat-based power transmission company.

However, the cops refused to get into details. “We are confident that we would be able to solve the case in a day or two. We strongly suspect that the murder was triggered by the intra-company feud”, a senior police officer privy to the investigation said.

On Tuesday night, Venkateshwaralu was hacked to death by a duo on Kumaran Colony III street while his driver who intervened during the assault survived with injuries.

The body of the deceased was handed over to the family at around 1.30
pm.

The relatives took the body to Venkatesapuram village in Nellore in Andhra Pradesh. The possible role of the driver was examined initially.

Subsequently, the cops started quizzing the employees of the firm, during which they had reportedly come up with something tangible to support their theory.

The deceased had worked in Tirunelveli as a top executive in the same company. He had been associated with the company for about a decade.

He had been recently moved to Chennai with an elevation as vice-president.
Sources indicated that they had fanned out a special to Tirunelveli as well to nab the assailants.

The company, which the deceased had worked for, had undertaken the work on power grid laying work for National Power Grid Corporation at Kudankulam for a length of 72 km.

It had also worked laying the grid for the state electricity board to a length of 157 km between Kayathar and Karaikudi and another 110 km between Mettur Thermal Power Station and Arasur.