Travel agent's lover who was on run land in police net
A police officer identified the arrested person as Sharadha Shanmugam, 32, of FCI Colony Second Street at Gandhi Maa Nagar. Police had issued a lookout notice against her a day ago.
The officer said Sharadha, who was working as a receptionist with a firm in Dubai, was having an affair with D Sigamani, 47, of Puliyanthoppu in Thanjavur district. Sigamani was running his own tour and travel firm in Dubai, while his wife Priya, 47, was residing at his hometown. He said Priya was aware of her husband's affair with Sharadha and asked him to end the illicit relationship.
According to the officer, Sharadha had reportedly given Rs5 lakh to Sigamani, who spent all the amount in Dubai. "When she asked him to return the amount, he allegedly beat her. Sharadha told the incident to her stepfather Thiyagarajan, who decided to finish off Sigamani."
He said Sharadha's husband Gunavel was murdered by Thiyagarajan in 2018 for assaulting her. While the sessions court had sentenced Thiyagarajan to life imprisonment, he went for an appeal before the Madras high court and came out on bail, the officer said.
Pointing out that Sharadha and Sigamani had come down to Coimbatore from Dubai on April 22, the officer said Sigamani was murdered by Sharadha, her mother Gomathi, 53, stepfather, elder sister S Neela, 33, relative M Swathi, 26, of Sivagiri in Erode district and henchman G Puthiyavan alias Kutti Thangam, 48, of Thachanallur in Tirunelveli district, on April 25. The body was dumped in the K Paramathy area in Karur district the same day, while Sharadha returned to Dubai from Trichy airport, he said.
Except Sharadha, all others involved in the murder were arrested by police after a probe into a man missing a complaint from Priya revealed that it was a case of murder. "Sharadha landed in Chennai airport from Dubai on April 30. Her mobile phone was switched off. We traced her whereabouts to her relative's residence at Maniyakarampalayam in the city and arrested her on Sunday. She has been remanded in judicial custody," the officer said.
The case was, meanwhile, transferred to the Saravanampatti investigation wing police from the Peelamedu police on Saturday evening.
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