A 23-year-old engineer was arrested on Saturday for allegedly beating
his six-year-old mentally challenged nephew to death with a beer bottle
and later dumping the body in the Parambikulam Aliyar Project (PAP)
canal at Poosaripatti near Pollachi on Wednesday. His 58-year-old driver
also was arrested.
Sources said that M Surya, son of Manokaran of
Maram Pudungi Gounden Pudur village, was irked over the fact that
suitors to his sister Varshini, a divorcee, were rejecting her after
learning about Avinash’s condition.
On Wednesday evening, Surya
and his driver N Murugan took along Avinash to the PAP canal at
Poosaripatti in their car. However, the duo returned home the same night
without Avinash.
The next day, Manokaran lodged a complaint with
Gomangalam police stating that Avinash had fallen into the canal while
he was trying to retrieve a water bottle that had fallen into it.
Though,
police found several inconsistencies in his complaint, they launched a
search for the boy. Avinash’s body was recovered at Sultan Pettai, 25 km
from where he had fallen into the canal. The body was sent to the
government hospital for autopsy where the doctors found out that Avinash
was murdered and then thrown into the canal. Based on the post-mortem
report, police picked up Surya for questioning. During interrogation,
Surya confessed to have murdered the boy over delay in the remarriage of
his sister.
According to police, Varshini divorced her husband in
2009 and had been living at her father’s house ever since. Her family
had been trying to arrange another marriage for her but all the
alliances were failing after the suitors’ families came to know about
Avinash.
Speaking to Express, P Periyasamy sub-inspector, said,
“Surya was upset over the fact that his marriage could not take place
until Varishini got married. Hence, he decided to kill Avinash. He took
the boy to PAP and hit him on his head with beer bottle until he was
dead and then threw the body into the canal.”
Following Surya’s
confession, Gomangalam police altered the missing case to murder and
arrested Surya and Murugan and remanded them in Coimbatore prison.
Sources said that Surya was a B Tech graduate and had been looking after
his father’s agricultural land.
Source : The New Indian Express , 8th September 2013
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