Second accused in Devadanam double murder case nabbed

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Virudhunagar territory constabulary connected Wednesday nabbed the 2nd accused, D. Muniyasamy, 40, successful the Devadanam temple treble execution lawsuit reported connected November 10.

The constabulary said that a peculiar squad had arrested him adjacent Rajapalayam railway presumption and reportedly recovered from him a knife, compartment phone, too 12.8 grams of golden and 79.9 grams of metallic and ₹5,200 cash.

According to police, Muniyasamy had been released connected bail from the jailhouse lone 3 days earlier the treble murder.

His accomplice, Nagaraj, had besides been enactment down the barroom successful transportation with a cellphone robbery case.

The constabulary said that the duo, who are relatives, had conspired to loot the hundial and valuables from Nachadai Thavirtharuliya Swamy Temple.

“Since, some the information personnel, Petchimuthu, 54, and Sankarapandian, 69, deployed connected nighttime work were from their ain village, they had planned to execution them and interruption the closed circuit tv cameras to debar being identified by the constabulary aft robbery,” a constabulary serviceman said.

They had carried weapons with them earlier scaling the compound partition connected the nighttime of November 10.

Though they had damaged the cameras and had taken distant with them the hard disc of the CCTV network, they had failed to announcement different CCTV camera that was moving connected the temple premises, the constabulary said.

The constabulary had already arrested the different accused, Nagaraj, 25, the precise adjacent day. Seithur Inspector of Police had to unfastened occurrence connected him erstwhile helium attacked a Sub-Inspector of Police with a machete erstwhile helium was taken to a secluded spot wherever helium had hidden the limb utilized for the treble murder.

Published - November 20, 2025 08:07 p.m. IST

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