Elderly woman found dead at home in Coimbatore gated community

The assemblage of an 82-year-old pistillate was recovered trussed up successful her residence successful a gated assemblage astatine Nanjundapuram, Coimbatore, connected Friday (March 6, 2026). The constabulary said that Kasturi Kutty, parent of Ramkumar Kutty, was recovered dormant successful her bedroom.

According to the police, Kasturi was residing with her lad Ramkumar, who is an Ayurvedic doctor, and a home idiosyncratic hailing from Nepal, Surja Rokay, 37. Ramkumar precocious went connected a overseas travel leaving his parent nether the attraction of the home worker. Her girl lives successful different gated assemblage successful the city, said the police.  

“The girl utilized to talk to her implicit the telephone each morning. She rang her parent astir 7.15 a.m. connected Friday arsenic accustomed but the calls went unanswered. She contacted a neighbour and requested to cheque connected her mother, arsenic the home idiosyncratic besides did not prime up her calls,” said a elder constabulary officer.

When the neighbour went to the location astatine 8.55 a.m., the beforehand doorway remained locked from the inside. She entered the location done the backmost gate, which was unlocked, and recovered the aged pistillate dead, with her limbs tied up and rima gagged. The home idiosyncratic was not home, said the officer.

G. Karthikeyan, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore South, visited the residence on with elder officers. The constabulary collected grounds from the country of the crime, wherever a sniffer canine was besides brought.

“The constabulary person launched an probe based connected a ailment received from the girl of the deceased. Six peculiar teams person been formed for investigation. The mobile telephone of the home idiosyncratic was recovered adjacent the house. The constabulary person got immoderate captious clues from visuals of surveillance cameras successful the gated community,” Mr. Karthikeyan said.

Missing golden chain

According to him, a golden concatenation worn by the deceased was missing. The constabulary are verifying whether different valuables oregon currency were missing from the house.   

Sources added that Kasturi is the girl of renowned Ayurveda doc P. V. Rama Varier, who is the laminitis of Arya Vaidya Pharmacy (Coimbatore) Limited, successful which Dr. Ramkumar is 1 of the directors.