Twenty one months after the missing of a 55-year-old Southern Railway employee from Tiruvottiyur, police have found that he was killed by his grandson and friends. Two persons were arrested on Friday in connection with the case.
Tiruvottiyur police sources said Jagannath Subburao, a technical officer with the railway diesel loco shed in Tondiarpet went missing from June 7, 2010. His son Venkataraman lodged a complaint with the police who registered a missing case.
“Few weeks ago the complainant informed us that his relative Rajesh (26), a cab driver in Sullurpet, Nellore district, had bragged in a drunken mood about him eliminating Subburao following a land dispute among family members,” said T. Sundaramoorthy, Inspector of Police, Tiruvottiyur.
Further probe led police team to Ramachandran (23) and Ramesh (25), also cab drivers and friends of Rajesh from Nellore. Enquiries revealed that the three men had kidnapped Subburao on June 7 and strangled him inside a car en route to Tada, Andhra Pradesh. “The three men put an unconscious Subburao on a railway track and left after a train ran him over. The Gudur railway police registered a case of unnatural death and marked the body as unidentified,” the Inspector added.
Ramachandran and Ramesh were arrested on Friday while the primary suspect Rajesh is already lodged in Puzhal prison in connection with a theft attempt in the Washermenpet police limits.
