Ransom attempt goes wrong, friends kill city engg student
A.Selvaraj @timesgroup.com
Chennai:08.02.2019
Police claim to have solved the murder of engineering student K Saravanan by arresting three people including two of his friends, who apparently kidnapped him for ransom. Saravanan’s body was recovered from a stone quarry at Kayar near Mamallapuram on January 28, a week after his mother had filed a missing complaint with the Adambakkam police.
Police said the three panicked and killed Saravanan when they came to know his mother had gone to police. They slit his wrists and made deep cuts on the head before tying up his hands and legs. They then attached stones to the body and threw it into the water-filled quarry, where it sank.
Police got a breakthrough when another of Saravanan’s friends got a text message from his mobile number on January 26 asking him for money. They traced the message to Puducherry and went there but found no trace of Saravanan.
Phone message provided police with breakthrough
The police then traced the mobile with its IMEI number to a man in Tiruvallur. He told them he had sold the phone to a dealer in Moore Market near Central railway station. The dealer told the police he had sold it to three men just a couple of days earlier.
This gave the police enough leads to crack the case using the wide network of CCTV cameras in and around the city. Mamallapuram DSP Subburaj said, “We monitored the suspects movements with the help of the CCTV cameras. As we were monitoring the footage, we called one of Saravanan’s friends Deepan Chakaravarthy to help us to identify suspects. However, he gave lame excuses and left for his house. Then he disappeared from his home.”
This roused the police’s suspicions and they traced and nabbed Deepan. Under sustained interrogation Deepam broke down and confessed. The police then arrested the other two as well.
The three — Deepan, 24, of Adambakkam, Rajesh, 23, of Keerapakkam, and Parthiban, 26, of Padianallur near Red Hills — had apparently hatched an elaborate plan to hire a truck and drive around with Saravanan in it while they waited for the ransom money. As part of the plan, Deepan who lived near Saravanan’s house had invited him to Guduvancherry on January 22. They bought liquor and went to Keerapakkam, where they all drank. Deepan Chakaravarthy alone and keep awake and alert to make ransom calls to Saravanan’s mother Sankari.
It was Deepan who found out that Saravanan’s mother had gone to the police late that night when he did not return home. They panicked and decided to kill Saravanan. The three reportedly told the police that drawing on the Kamal Haasan movie ‘Papanasam’, they decided to create alibis for themselves and divert attention away from them.
As part of this plan, they left Saravanan’s motorbike at the quarry but kept his sim card after destroying his phone. The bike is missing and police suspect someone else may have chanced upon and stolen it. The trio then decided to go to Puducherry and other places and use Saravanan’s sim card to keep up the pretence that he was alive.
But their game was up once Saravanan’s body surfaced on January 26.
The arrested trio with police personnel
A.Selvaraj @timesgroup.com
Chennai:08.02.2019
Police claim to have solved the murder of engineering student K Saravanan by arresting three people including two of his friends, who apparently kidnapped him for ransom. Saravanan’s body was recovered from a stone quarry at Kayar near Mamallapuram on January 28, a week after his mother had filed a missing complaint with the Adambakkam police.
Police said the three panicked and killed Saravanan when they came to know his mother had gone to police. They slit his wrists and made deep cuts on the head before tying up his hands and legs. They then attached stones to the body and threw it into the water-filled quarry, where it sank.
Police got a breakthrough when another of Saravanan’s friends got a text message from his mobile number on January 26 asking him for money. They traced the message to Puducherry and went there but found no trace of Saravanan.
Phone message provided police with breakthrough
The police then traced the mobile with its IMEI number to a man in Tiruvallur. He told them he had sold the phone to a dealer in Moore Market near Central railway station. The dealer told the police he had sold it to three men just a couple of days earlier.
This gave the police enough leads to crack the case using the wide network of CCTV cameras in and around the city. Mamallapuram DSP Subburaj said, “We monitored the suspects movements with the help of the CCTV cameras. As we were monitoring the footage, we called one of Saravanan’s friends Deepan Chakaravarthy to help us to identify suspects. However, he gave lame excuses and left for his house. Then he disappeared from his home.”
This roused the police’s suspicions and they traced and nabbed Deepan. Under sustained interrogation Deepam broke down and confessed. The police then arrested the other two as well.
The three — Deepan, 24, of Adambakkam, Rajesh, 23, of Keerapakkam, and Parthiban, 26, of Padianallur near Red Hills — had apparently hatched an elaborate plan to hire a truck and drive around with Saravanan in it while they waited for the ransom money. As part of the plan, Deepan who lived near Saravanan’s house had invited him to Guduvancherry on January 22. They bought liquor and went to Keerapakkam, where they all drank. Deepan Chakaravarthy alone and keep awake and alert to make ransom calls to Saravanan’s mother Sankari.
It was Deepan who found out that Saravanan’s mother had gone to the police late that night when he did not return home. They panicked and decided to kill Saravanan. The three reportedly told the police that drawing on the Kamal Haasan movie ‘Papanasam’, they decided to create alibis for themselves and divert attention away from them.
As part of this plan, they left Saravanan’s motorbike at the quarry but kept his sim card after destroying his phone. The bike is missing and police suspect someone else may have chanced upon and stolen it. The trio then decided to go to Puducherry and other places and use Saravanan’s sim card to keep up the pretence that he was alive.
But their game was up once Saravanan’s body surfaced on January 26.
The arrested trio with police personnel
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