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Wednesday, Sep 14, 2005

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Woman held on the charge of murdering husband

Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The suspected suicide of a 37-year-old man in Parassala has turned out to be a case of murder with the arrest of his wife by the Rural Police on Tuesday.

The accused, Bindu, 32, was produced before the court on the charge of plotting the murder of her husband, Chandran. The first accused in the murder case, Vincent, 42, had committed suicide on September 9.

Chandran was found dead in the vicinity of a kiln used for baking tiles near his house on December 14, 2004. The post-mortem examination found that Chandran had died after consuming alcohol mixed with cyanide. Initially, the police suspected Chandran to have committed suicide.

Bindu had blamed a person named John, with whom Chandran had some financial dealings, for "abetting" her husband's "suicide."

Circle Inspector, Parassala, P. Reghu, said the breakthrough in the case came when some witnesses told the police that Chandran was seen in Vincent's company on the night he had died. Both had been drinking toddy together at a licensed outlet and they later travelled in the same bus to the place where Chandran lived.

The police found that Vincent, who ran an `ashramam,' was a close friend of Chandran's family. He had conducted several `pujas' for the family at the bidding of Chandran.

Mr. Reghu said Vincent and Bindu were having an extra-marital relationship without Chandran's knowledge. The duo hatched a plot to murder Chandran when he started suspecting Bindu, he said.

The police case is that Vincent made an unsuspecting Chandran drink the alcohol mixed with cyanide.

When the police got hot on Vincent's trial, he tried to coerce Bindu to enter into a suicide pact with him.

However, the woman backed out at the last moment thinking there would be no one to care for her three children.

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