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It is, nevertheless, a false impression that such crimes happen solely in distant villages or the southern districts of Tamil Nadu. Even city areas like Chennai witness such brutal acts pushed by caste or class prejudice.
One such chilling case was orchestrated in Chennai by a person employed as an Assistant Engineer with the Chennai Metrowater Board, 14 years in the past.
On June 2, 2011, a 24-year-old engineer C. Parthasarathy left for his workplace in TIDEL Park, Taramani, after bidding goodbye to his 22-year-old spouse, N. Saranya, at their dwelling on Ayyan Mudali Street in Chintadripet. Saranya, then in her remaining 12 months of MBBS, had met Parthasarathy by social media. The couple fell in love, formally registered their marriage on February 10, and held a spiritual ceremony 13 days later.
That day, nevertheless, Parthasarathy by no means reached his office. Saranya’s repeated calls went unanswered. Growing anxious, she approached the native police station and filed a lacking particular person’s criticism. She suspected her household’s disapproval of the love marriage had one thing to do together with his disappearance.
On June 4, passersby close to a bridge at Ongur in Villupuram district — about 117 km from Chintadripet — found {a partially} burnt male physique. The Villupuram Police, who obtained a name, arrived on the spot. They had been unable to ascertain the person’s identification instantly as his face was burnt. However, upon sharing data with different police stations, they discovered of a lacking particular person case from Chintadripet. Parthasarathy’s father was introduced in and he confirmed the physique was his son’s.
Saranya was inconsolable. “I feared my household would hurt my husband. But, the police didn’t take me severely and simply registered a lacking particular person criticism. Had they acted on my fears, this might have been prevented,” she advised journalists.
With this growth, the investigation picked up tempo. On June 11, Villupuram Superintendent of Police Xavier Dhanraj introduced a breakthrough: the arrest of Saranya’s father, Narasimhan — a Chennai Metrowater Assistant Engineer — and 4 others. Those arrested included Saluja, a 35-year-old lady dwelling in Villivakkam, Chennai, and three hirelings Janakiraman (25), Hemanthram (20) and Dhileep (25), additionally belonging to the identical place.
According to the police, Saranya had left her household dwelling in Perambur to marry Parthasarathy, defying her dad and mom who had organized her marriage to a physician. She had since been dwelling with Parthasarathy in Chintadripet whereas persevering with her medical research.
“The employed males tracked Parthasarathy’s actions for over two-and-a-half months. On June 2, when Parthasarathy was on his strategy to the railway station they bundled him right into a automotive and went to Villupuram by way of Tindivanam. During the investigation, it got here to mild that every one alongside the journey, they pressured Parthasarathy to finish his relationship with Saranya however he refused. Having realised that no quantity of persuasion will change the thoughts of Parthasarathy, they strangled him and set the face and different physique elements on fireplace earlier than dumping the physique,” stated Mr Dhanraj.
Police revealed that Saluja, a widow who helped Narasimhan plan the homicide, had first met him on the Metrowater workplace whereas making use of for a water pipeline connection for her home. They remained in touch, and when Narasimhan was distraught over his daughter’s elopement, she launched him to Dileep.
Dileep, whose father and Saluja’s late husband had labored collectively, then organized for the murder-for-hire group.
Saranya’s mom, Latha, was a schoolteacher. Since the important thing people on this case had been all Chennai residents, caste dynamics didn’t dominate public discourse. The case was seen as merely parental opposition to a love marriage and, on the time, failed to draw political consideration.
