Pudukkottai, July 23: Police arrested a 36-year old man and solved a mystery behind the serial murder cases that took place in Pudukkottai, Sivaganga, Dindigul and Tiruchirapalli districts of Tamil Nadu in recent months, in which eight women were murdered.
Talking to newspersons here yesterday, Inspector General of Police(Central Region) Karan Sinha said the modus-operandi of the accused Kupusamy of Konnayampatti in the district, was to visit isolated areas, rape the victims and strangulate them death.
The women were murdered while they were working in agricultural fields. Among the deceased, two were 70-year-old. Earlier, only six cases were registered by the police stations. The youth during interrogation confessed that he had eliminated two more women, he added.
Mr Sinha said police obtained a clue when the culprit fled the scene after abandoning his two-wheeler at Puthambur near Pudukottai after a targeted woman had raised an alarm.
Based on his information, gold jewels weighing 53 gram was recovered from a Jewellery Mart in Ponnamaravathy, near here, he added.
—-Agencies