Dubai-based travel agent's body exhumed from Karur burial ground
D Sigamani
KARUR/COIMBATORE: The dead body of a Dubai-based travel agent, who was murdered by a six-member gang in Coimbatore city, was exhumed from a burial ground in
Karur
district on Saturday.
D Sigamani, 47, of Puliyanthoppu in Thanjavur district, who was running a tour and travel firm in Dubai, had developed an extramarital affair with a woman named Sharadha Shanmugam of Gandhi Maa Nagar in Coimbatore. Sharadha, who was a receptionist in Dubai, had spent a few lakhs rupees for him. When she asked him to repay the amount, he allegedly beat her up.
The woman returned to Coimbatore on April 22. He also reached Coimbatore the same day from Dubai.
Sharadha and her family members and a henchman hatched a conspiracy to murder Sigamani. On April 24 night, they served him alcohol and food-laced with sleeping pills. Later, Sharadha's stepfather, Thiyagarajan, punched on his chest and neck. Sigamani died on the spot. The family dumped the dead body in an isolated area in Karur district on April 25.
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The unidentified body was recovered from Kattumunnur area in the jurisdiction of the K Paramathy police on April 26. It was sent to the Karur Govt Medical College Hospital for postmortem. As the body remained unidentified, the Karur police completed procedures and buried it at the Palamapuram burial ground on April 28.
On Monday, the
Peelamedu police
exhumed the body in the presence of revenue department officials. A re-postmortem was performed on the spot. Later, the body was handed over to the deceased's family members.
The police have arrested Thiyagarajan, his second wife Gomathi, 52, stepdaughter S Neela, 33, henchman Puthiyavan alias Kutti Thangam of Thachanallur in Tirunelveli, and his relative P Swathi, 26. The police were not able to trace Sharadha who returned to Chennai airport from Dubai on April 28. She had switched off her mobile phone. The police issued a lookout notice for her. A police team is camping in Chennai to nab her.
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