The Kancheepuram district police have formed three special police teams to look for unidentified persons who murdered a 76-year-old woman in Meleri village, Sriperumbudur. The woman, identified as Yasodhammal was living alone in her house in Melleri village near Sriperumbudur. Police believe she was murdered on Saturday.
A senior police official of Kancheepuram district said the victim had returned to her home on Saturday morning after visiting her daughter in Chennai city. Neighbours, who realised she had not come out of her house by Sunday noon, went and knocked on her door. As she did not respond, the residents informed the Sunguvarchathiram police who came to her house and, on breaking open her front door found her dead.
Yasodhammal was murdered with a heavy grinding stone, police said. Kancheepuram Superintendent of Police M. Sudhakar visited the crime scene along with fingerprint experts. He has ordered special teams to be formed to catch the unidentified persons.
The body has been sent to the Sriperumbudur Government Hospital for a post-mortem.
