Monday, March 25, 2013

Mar 25, 2013: Man held for murdering lover

TNN | Mar 25, 2013, 02.43 AM IST
COIMBATORE: A 25-year-old man has been arrested for drowning a woman with whom he had a relationship to death in theVannanthurai stream near Vanjipalayam in Tirupur district on Saturday night.

The accused has been identified as P Deva alias Tamilselvan, a native of Pudukkottai district. He was employed at a garment factory at Tirupur and resided with his mother in a rented house at Saradha Nagar, Tirupur city.

The deceased has been identified as Pushpa, 28, daughter of Ponraj, a native of Theni district and was residing in a rented house at Saradha Nagar in Tirupur. She was working as a tailor at a garment factory.

Police said, Pushpa and Deva had been in love for the past one year. Promising to marry her, he had intimate relations with her. When she became pregnant, Deva told Pushpa that they could not get married and he began avoiding her. When Pushpa continued to pursue him, he said that since he was three years younger than her, his mother would not accept the marriage. However, Pushpa was unwilling to give up.

On Saturday around 8 pm, Deva told Pushpa that he wanted to meet with her at Vannanthurai stream near Vanjipalayam. When they met at the agreed upon spot, a verbal quarrel ensured between them. Deva attacked her head with a stone and later he drowned her to death.

Deva returned home and confessed the murder to his friends who advised him to surrender before Anupparpalayam police station. The police recovered the body and sent it to Tirupur government hospital for postmortem.

A case was registered against Deva under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code and the police arrested Deva who has been lodged in Coimbatore central prison.
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