A FAILED SCRIPT
This director’s cut is a murder most foul
Tattoo On One Of The Hands Of The Deceased Helps Police Zero In On Husband
A.Selvaraj@timesgroup.com
07.02.2019
Dealing with a murder was not a new thing to him. But this time, the floor was not in a studio but at his 10*10 room in Jafferkhanpet and the plot was in real life. He was the protagonist and his estranged wife the victim.
Kollywood film director S R Balakrishnan, who murdered Sandhya on January 19 and was arrested on Tuesday, told police he smashed her head with a hammer after failing to convince her to give up her dream of becoming an actor.
Balakrishnan told police he cut up the body, scraped off the flesh, before twisting and twirling the bones and packing the parts into differed plastic covers that he sealed to ensure they didn’t fall out.
He made a few trips to dump the body parts — one to drop a bag in a bin behind Kasi theatre, another on the road leading towards Jafferkhanpet and yet another on the banks of the Adyar — all between 12.30am and 1am. While one bag, with three limbs, was discovered in a Pallikaranai dump on January 21, the second bag was found on Wednesday. The third and possibly a fourth are yet to be found.
After the disposal, he returned home, washed his blood-stained room clean and went to bed. Life had to be lived. He began watching TV and reading newspapers for ‘developments’ in the case. He called up his mother-in-law R Prasanna, of Thovazhai in Kanyakumari district, saying Sandhya had planned to travel abroad to take up a job. This was apparently to ensure her family would not lodge a missing complaint. Last week, Balakrishnan himself lodged a complaint with the Tuticorin police, saying his wife was missing.
The Tuticorin police then called Prasanna who said her daughter was in Chennai and if something had happened to her, it would bebecause of Balakrishnan.
Prasanna told police Balakrishna had never been loving toward Sandhya in 17 years of their marriage life, that he had tonsured her head so that no one would look at her.
After Balakrishnan’s arrest, police said they identified the woman with the help of a dragon tattoo on her limbs. When investigation officer Albin Raj questioned Balakrishnan, nothing in his answers created any suspicion. “We searched his mobile phone gallery for his wife’s photo but found none. Finally, we found a photo showing the tattoo on her limbs. It matched that found on a body part recovered from the dump yard.”
Balakrishnan initially denied any role in the death before finally admitting to the crime. “I didn’t like her acting. She didn’t pay heed to my plea. She spoke to many men. This pushed me into killing her on January 19,”he said.
On an earlier occasion, a police officer said, Sandhya had consumed an overdose of sleeping pills and attempted to end her life, as he was against her plan to take up acting. He rescued her and admitted her to a private hospital.
This director’s cut is a murder most foul
Tattoo On One Of The Hands Of The Deceased Helps Police Zero In On Husband
A.Selvaraj@timesgroup.com
07.02.2019
Dealing with a murder was not a new thing to him. But this time, the floor was not in a studio but at his 10*10 room in Jafferkhanpet and the plot was in real life. He was the protagonist and his estranged wife the victim.
Kollywood film director S R Balakrishnan, who murdered Sandhya on January 19 and was arrested on Tuesday, told police he smashed her head with a hammer after failing to convince her to give up her dream of becoming an actor.
Balakrishnan told police he cut up the body, scraped off the flesh, before twisting and twirling the bones and packing the parts into differed plastic covers that he sealed to ensure they didn’t fall out.
He made a few trips to dump the body parts — one to drop a bag in a bin behind Kasi theatre, another on the road leading towards Jafferkhanpet and yet another on the banks of the Adyar — all between 12.30am and 1am. While one bag, with three limbs, was discovered in a Pallikaranai dump on January 21, the second bag was found on Wednesday. The third and possibly a fourth are yet to be found.
After the disposal, he returned home, washed his blood-stained room clean and went to bed. Life had to be lived. He began watching TV and reading newspapers for ‘developments’ in the case. He called up his mother-in-law R Prasanna, of Thovazhai in Kanyakumari district, saying Sandhya had planned to travel abroad to take up a job. This was apparently to ensure her family would not lodge a missing complaint. Last week, Balakrishnan himself lodged a complaint with the Tuticorin police, saying his wife was missing.
The Tuticorin police then called Prasanna who said her daughter was in Chennai and if something had happened to her, it would bebecause of Balakrishnan.
Prasanna told police Balakrishna had never been loving toward Sandhya in 17 years of their marriage life, that he had tonsured her head so that no one would look at her.
After Balakrishnan’s arrest, police said they identified the woman with the help of a dragon tattoo on her limbs. When investigation officer Albin Raj questioned Balakrishnan, nothing in his answers created any suspicion. “We searched his mobile phone gallery for his wife’s photo but found none. Finally, we found a photo showing the tattoo on her limbs. It matched that found on a body part recovered from the dump yard.”
Balakrishnan initially denied any role in the death before finally admitting to the crime. “I didn’t like her acting. She didn’t pay heed to my plea. She spoke to many men. This pushed me into killing her on January 19,”he said.
On an earlier occasion, a police officer said, Sandhya had consumed an overdose of sleeping pills and attempted to end her life, as he was against her plan to take up acting. He rescued her and admitted her to a private hospital.
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