Police found a severed head on a road in the neighbourhood around 10.30pm on Tuesday. More than two hours later, they retrieved a headless body from a playground 2km away. After investigations, police said the murder was a result of a love triangle that went awry. Praveen Kumar, a school dropout, Vinoth Kumar of S M Nagar and Kalaivanan, all aged 19, were childhood friends. They played football together at the Vyasarpadi railway goods shed playground where Praveen's body was found. Vinoth has been in love with a girl living in his locality for a few years.
Praveen, too, was in love with the girl, a fact which the girl was not aware of. Coming to know of Praveen's love for the girl, Vinoth warned him and asked him to keep away from her. But Praveen would not budge. "That's when Vinoth decided to eliminate him," said a police officer. "He hatched a plan with Kalaivanan and another friend Ajith to kill Praveen."
Vinoth and Kalaivanan picked up Praveen from his home for what they said would be a party. "Vinoth told Praveen that he would sacrifice his love for the sake of their friendship," said a police officer, based on Vinoth's confession.
"They went to the playground and had a few drinks. Then Vinoth deliberately picked up a fight with him and took out a knife from his pocket. He stabbed him. Praveen ran, but they chased and caught him. They severed his head and abandoned it near S M Nagar."
A few passersby who noticed the head alerted police. Praveen's mother was brought to identify the head, but she couldn't. Police, who recovered Vinoth's ID card from the playground, zeroed in on him after he and his friends went missing soon after the incident.
"We came to know that the playground was their meeting point. We got the body and the ID card from there. The body had the name of Praveen's mother (Tulasi) tattooed on a hand," said additional deputy commissioner of police S Jeyakumar.
Vinoth, Kalaivanan and Ajith have been remanded in judicial custody.
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