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Kanetsugu Naoe
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Wednesday January 5, 2011
Police: Grandma plotted triple murder of M’sians
CHENNAI: A 67-year-old woman is believed to have plotted the brutal killing of a Malaysian woman and her two young children in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu last November, police said.
The woman, now in police custody in Madurai, was the grandmother of the prime suspect in the triple murder and was believed to have fled to Malaysia with four other suspects.
“We discovered the grandmother was the mastermind behind the murders. She was the one who told them (the suspects) to seek revenge by killing the deceased.
“Seven suspects held earlier also revealed she had a hand in the crime.
“The bodies were initially buried in the woman’s (grandmother’s) coconut plantation but later moved to another place,” Vadipatti police inspector P.R. Lakshmanan said yesterday.
Adhila, 24, her daughter Ajira Banu, five, and son Mohd Aslan, seven, all Malaysian nationals, went missing from their home in Rama_nanthapura District on Nov 8 last year.
Three days later, police discovered the highly decomposed bodies of the missing trio in a canal at Vadipatti in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, about 150km from where they were kidnapped.
A probe revealed that the murders were linked to an old local gang war and the trio were killed to settle a score with Adhila’s husband, last known to be working in Malaysia.
The case, which received a lot of media attention in South India, was transferred to the Tamil Nadu Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) last week, under orders from the Madras High Court.
“Innocent children have been murdered due to the alleged enmity between two families.
“In such circumstances, this court is convinced that the CB-CID would be the competent agency to continue investigation and seek the assistance of Malaysian police to bring the culprits back to India,” said Justice V. Periyakaruppan, who ordered the transfer of the case. — Bernama
