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Two youths held for Marakanam woman's murder

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, APRIL 7. A police team today detained two youths belonging to K.K. Nagar in connection with the recent murder of a 22-year-old woman at Marakanam in Villupuram district.

Pandian and Manikandan, both residents of M.G.R. Nagar in K.K. Nagar, have been implicated in the case based on the identification made by the woman's father, a Hindu priest, at Marakanam today.

Pandian's name figures in the complaint filed by the priest at K.K. Nagar Police Station on Wednesday stating that he had eloped with the woman on night of March 30.

Marakanam police, who secured the charred remains of the girl from an isolated spot on March 31, had registered a case under Section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Death under mysterious circumstances). During autopsy, it was revealed that the woman was strangled and then burnt. After preliminary investigations, the body was buried.

Today the body was exhumed and the father confirmed the identity of his daughter. In coordination with their counterparts in the city, Marakanam police detained the youths and interrogations continued till evening at the local police station there.

Pandian, a newspaper delivery boy, had reportedly known the girl for seven years. There was opposition to their relationship from the woman's family.

The exact motive for the murder is not yet known.

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