CHENNAI: A 41-year-old girl Covid-19 individual, who vanished from the corona ward in Chennai’s Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and discovered lifeless at the hospital premises later, was killed by a female contract employee to steal her money and cellular phone, authorities said on Tuesday.
Police detained the murder defendant, Rathi Devi, 40, of Thiruvottiyur.
The police retrieved from the stolen cell telephone of their deceased girl, identified as Sunitha, 41, of Kadaperi at West Tambaram.
The police staff solved the situation following hospital team members and members advised them that they’d seen Sunitha using Rathi Devi, who’d shot her into a wheelchair out of ward number 268 around the next floor in the Tower III.
On questioning, Rathi Devia priest, who’s residing with her 22-year-old child and a girl, confessed to being killed Sunitha to fulfill her expenses because she had been in desperate need of cash.
Rathi Devi advised the authorities that she’d detected Sunitha counting notes in the denomination of Rs 500 in her purse.
She devised a plan to steal the amount out of Sunitha.
She shot Sunitha at a wheelchair under the pretext of carrying her into a scan space.
She used a crisis elevator and took her into the floor, where she donned her and dumped the body at a EB area near the stairs.
Flower Bazaar deputy commissioner of authorities S Maheshwaran explained,”Sunitha’s hyoid bone wasn’t broken, which generally breaks through strangulation.
Since her lungs had been infected as a result of coronavirus, she’d breathing problems.
When Rathi Devi implemented a moderate force, she expired.” Rathi Devi stole money and the cell phone.
She laid off Sunitha’s body in a sleeping posture after maintaining her chappals beneath the mind.
Sunitha’s husband Mouli is a faculty member in a private engineering school in Andhra Pradesh.
Sunitha, a homemaker, was declared to GH on May 23 after she tested positive for Covid-19.
On May 24, Mouli seen with the GH and discovered his wife lost out of the corona ward.
He also filed a police complaint.
Sunitha’s decomposed body was discovered on June 8.
Chennai city police commissioner Shankar Jiwal appreciated the authorities group that solved the situation.