Chennai triple murder: 5 arrested for brutal killing of Bihari family
Police arrest five Bihar natives for brutal murders in Adyar; the killings reportedly followed a sexual assault attempt on woman whose body is yet to be traced
Chennai police have arrested five persons, all natives of Bihar, in connection with the gruesome triple murder of a young couple from Bihar and their two-year-old son. The arrests were made following intensive investigation into the killings that allegedly stemmed from an attempted sexual assault on the wife.
According to the police, the case came to light on Monday (January 26) when a gunny bag containing the body of a 24-year-old man, bearing multiple cuts to the head and face, was found near a two-wheeler showroom on 1st Avenue, Indira Nagar, Adyar. CCTV footage showed two men on a motorcycle dumping the bag.
Wife’s body remains untraced
Tracing the phone numbers found on the body, the police confirmed the man’s identity and discovered that his wife and child were also missing. The deceased reportedly worked as a security guard at a private institution.
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The motorcycle led police to suspects and their interrogation revealed that the family was killed after an alleged attempt to sexually assault the man's wife triggered a confrontation. The two-year-old boy’s body was recovered on Tuesday afternoon from a canal in the Central Kailash area. The search for his mother's body continues in areas including the Adyar riverbank and Taramani dumping yard.
Four of the five arrested accused, all from Bihar, have been identified as Sikandar, Narendrakumar, Ravindranath Thakur, and Vikas. They are being interrogated at a secret location as the investigation continues.
‘Peace park’ no more
Opposition leaders in Tamil Nadu have strongly condemned the gruesome murders and launched scathing attacks on the ruling DMK government, accusing it of allowing the state to descend into lawlessness. Narayanan Thirupathi, chief spokesperson of the BJP, described the killings as deeply shocking and accused the Chennai Police of being unable to control the rising crime graph, stating that the city was fast becoming a “murder city”.
“The days when leaders boasted that Tamil Nadu was a ‘peace park’ are gone. It is turning into a jungle of violence, which is shameful,” Thirupathi added.
No safety, claims EPS
AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami called the murders “the height of brutality”. “A gang, maddened by alcohol, raped and murdered the man’s wife, killed him when he tried to intervene, and then smashed their two-year-old child to death on the ground. This is the ultimate cruelty,” Palaniswami said in a statement.
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He pointed out that just days after a Maharashtra youth was brutally attacked in Tiruttani, an incident that sparked nationwide outrage, an entire family from North India had now been wiped out in Tamil Nadu. “This blatantly shows that under DMK rule, law and order in the state is being mocked across the country, despite claims that Tamil Nadu ‘welcomes and nurtures visitors’,” he said.
Palaniswami strongly condemned those involved in the “inhuman crime” and the DMK government for “running an administration that offers no safety to anyone”.
