The Avadi police on Sunday exhumed the body of a flower vendor, suspected to have been murdered, from the house of an auto driver, the prime accused. Two special teams have been formed to nab Diwan Mohammed and his friend Gopi, the other accused.
Police said that Sundaram, a resident of Ramalingapuram 3rd Street, Avadi, went missing from his house on September 2. Based on a man missing complaint, the Avadi Police registered a case and during investigation, they found that Sundaram was in an illicit relationship with a flower vendor Amudha, 33, of Gowripettai.
Due to some dispute, Amudha left him and started a relationship with Diwan Mohammed. After Sundaram learnt of Amudha’s relationship with Mohammed, he had beaten her up and also threatened her, police said.
Fed up of the harassment, Amudha hatched a plan with her cousin Rajeswari, Diwan and two others to murder Sundaram.
Rajeswari took Sundaram to Diwan’s house and he was murdered, police said. To cover up the crime, Diwan dug a pit in the house and dumped the body and covered it with concrete.
The Avadi police arrested Amudha, Rajeswari and Diwan’s mother Rahima Ghani. The body was sent to the Government Kilpauk Hospital for post-mortem.
