A three-year-old boy of a businessman was strangulated to death by a 24-year-old woman of Duraisamypuram in the city on Saturday.
The woman, a former employee at the mobile recharge shop run by Sivakumar, the businessman, had allegedly committed the crime in retaliation against her recent ouster from the job. Sivakumar was running the shop at Duraisamypuram and had employed Roslin Bakkiarani. Sivakumar had terminated her employment a few months ago. The woman was said to have been working at the shop for nearly two years and she was removed from the job as she was not maintaining proper accounts.
On Saturday afternoon, the woman had intercepted Sivakumar’s daughter Shidani (10) and three-year-old son Shirish when they were walking towards their house from the shop.
Roslin had told the girl that she would drop her brother at home and took Shirish on her two-wheeler to a vacant house at Keeraikollai Street where she strangled him using her ‘dupatta’. Even as Shirish fainted, she took him to Sivakumar’s house and handed him over to Lakshmi, Sivakumar’s mother, saying that the child was fast asleep.
Later, Roslin surrendered at the Palakkarai police station and reportedly confessed to the crime. The police rushed to Sivakumar’s house and immediately took the child to the Government Hospital, where the doctors declared the child brought dead.
Palakkarai police have registered a case of murder and are investigating.
