Chennai: Two days after the Mystery of the ‘Whodunnit’ murder where a 45-year-old professor was found dead in a locked room a few minutes after he called his sister – who lived on a different floor from the same home phone about some suspicious movements in his room , the police on Tuesday arrested the killer with the help of a piece of shirt and rice seeds found at the scene.
According to the police, Sudhakar’s allegations, 41, a teacher, who used to visit him late at night with a counter-to-use wall and cross the terrace of the nearest house to enter his room, had killed him with a knife on Saturday after jumping him up with another relationship.
Anitha, a Spinster, lives with her sister Shanmugakii, brother-in-law and her son at their home in AngalaParameswari Nagar, Orikkai, in Kancheepuram.
He worked as a professor at a college in Enathur and lived in a separate room on the first floor of the house.
On Saturday night, after dinner, Anitha called her sister on the phone said she saw some suspicious movements in her room.
He was later found dead when his family members examined it.
Police Taluk Kancheepuram who visited the place found parts of rice and rice seeds scattered in the room.
The police focused on the rice factory when they checked Anitha’s contact list on her cellphone.
Probe revealed that he was in touch with the factory owner’s brother.
According to the police, and the defendant came to the victim’s house directly from the factory and committed a crime.
The police arrested Sudhakar who claimed to be crime when faced with evidence.
Anitha is a teacher in a private school 10 years ago when he came into contact with Sudhakar who was also a teacher at school.
Immediately, Anitha became a professor, while Sudhakar got a job at a government school.
The police said that even though they worked in different places, they stayed in touch.
Sudhakar, a father of two people, developed a relationship with him.
He often visited his house when his family fell asleep.
When he lived in a separate room on the first floor, it was easy for him to scale the parapet wall and the terrace of the houses that were side by side and reach his room through the back door.
Recently, Sudhakar is believed to have developed contact with other women too.
Anitha, who was annoyed because of this, asked him to stay away.
On Saturday, Sudhakar entered Anitha’s room before he entered and hid himself.
After fighting when he found it there, he stabbed him with the stomach and neck using a folding knife and removed his jewelry worth six sovereign.
“Anitha managed to push him out of the house through the back door, associating it and called his sister’s family member on the first floor,” said an investigative officer.
Anitha pretended like there were some suspicious movements in her room and fainted.
Anitha’s family opened the door, found his death and told me.
A few hours before the murder, he had spoken with a killer of more than an hour, police said.
Sudhakar has been returned in judicial detention.