Chennai, June 08: The city woke up on Sunday to the macabre tale of a man’s body parts being recovered from three different parts of the city and his head still missing. With the help of a receipt found in his trouser pocket, the police identified the man as G Suresh Kumar, a 42-year-old man from Kodungaiyur who worked as an intermediary for gold sales. The motive behind the murder is yet to be established, though the police suspect business-related rivalry.
Ramu, a tea shop worker at Satanna Naicker Street in Choolai, saw a polyethylene bag with two severed human hands at 6 am. Even as the police started investigations, within two-and-a-half hours, the control room received another call from a resident of Badri Lane of Venkataraman Street near Elephant Gate, about one-and-a-half km away, informing them about two human legs found in a cardboard box by the roadside. The next call came 30 minutes later, from Krishnappa Maestry Street, nearly 200 metres away. The caller told the police that a male torso covered with a newspaper was found between a parked car and the compound wall of a house. One of the hands had a sacred thread tied to it and one of the fingers had a brass ring.
A sniffer dog brought in at Sadananda Maestry Street, ran till Periamet roundtana and stopped. At Elephant Gate, where the lower limbs were found, the dog ran to a hotel. At Flower Bazaar, the dog ran for a few hundred metres and stopped at a street junction.
Police retrieved a pawn broker’s receipt from the trousers, part of which was still attached to the severed limbs. The receipt had the name Suresh Kumar and an address. Later, Kumar’s wife Bharathi, mother Yasoda and father Govindarajan (70) identified the body at the Government General Hospital morgue. The family heard of the murder from the police on Sunday morning. The couple have two sons, Saran (9) and Sanjay (4).
Forensic department officials and fingerprint officials visited the scene. Periamet, Elephant Gate and Flower Bazaar police are probing the case.
—Agencies–