Early April, when a migrant employee from Assam who had been in judicial custody for allegedly having stolen some cash was launched from jail, he discovered that the crime had extracted a steep value — his live-in accomplice had left him. Enraged, he allegedly went to homicide the particular person he noticed as liable for his state of affairs — the complainant in his case, a Kottayam based mostly businessman, T Ok Vijayakumar and his spouse, Meera.
On Wednesday, the Kottayam Police arrested Amit Orang, the 23-year-old migrant employee, for the dual murders, from a poultry farm in Thrissur, the place he had sought asylum after the crime on Monday night time. Vijayakumar was working a conference centre in Kottayam.
In keeping with Kottayam District Police Superintendent Shahul Hameed, the arrested migrant employee and his accomplice – additionally from Assam — had been employed by Vijayakumar at his home. In September final yr, Orang allegedly stole Vijayakumar’s cell phone and siphoned off Rs 1.50 lakh from his account.
“We had then registered an FIR towards him in reference to the incident. In November final yr, he was arrested. Early this month, he acquired bail and realised that his live-in accomplice had deserted him,” stated the SP.
After this, Orang tried to get Vijaykumar to withdraw the case however the latter refused to settle. In keeping with the police, Monday night time, an enraged Orang scaled the partitions of Vijaykumar’s extremely safe two-storeyed home, used a hand drill to interrupt open the window pane subsequent to the door and reached inside to unlock the home. He allegedly hacked the couple to demise utilizing a hatchet.
“The couple’s faces have been disfigured. The brutality signifies his grudge in direction of them. Nothing was stolen from the home,” the SP stated, including that Orang allegedly took away the digital video recorder used to report movies in the home’s CCTV safety system.
Considerably, the couple have been brutally murdered precisely a month after the Central Bureau of Investigation started a probe into the 2017 demise of their 28-year-old son Gautham, an entrepreneur in Technopark in Thiruvananthapuram, whose physique was discovered on a railway monitor in Kottayam.
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In keeping with the SP, the couple’s murders weren’t linked to the mysterious demise of their son.
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