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The assemblage of a Village Administrative Officer (VAO), connected suspension, was recovered connected Nagai East Coast Road connected Sunday. He was identified arsenic T. Rajaraman, 39, a nonmigratory of Vaazhakkarai adjacent Thirukkuvalai.
Rajaraman, who served arsenic VAO of Thiruvaimur and had earlier been successful complaint astatine Ettukudi, was arrested successful 2024 connected charges of accepting a ₹500 bribe and was subsequently placed nether suspension. The lawsuit is pending trial. He had appeared earlier the Nagapattinam tribunal connected Friday successful transportation with the matter. Late connected Saturday night, his assemblage was recovered connected East Coast Road wrong the Velippalayam constabulary presumption limits..
Police said unidentified assailants had waylaid advertisement attacked him with stones and near him with terrible caput and facial injuries. Rajaraman had been surviving separately from his wife, Manoshitha, and their nine-year-old lad for astir a twelvemonth successful Kottucherry successful Karaikal district.
Residents recovered his assemblage connected the roadside and alerted Velippalaiyam police. The assemblage was sent to the Government Medical College Hospital for post-mortem examination. Police said the assemblage bore outer injuries accordant with a beatings. Investigators are awaiting the post-mortem study for further details.
Police sources said the victim’s mobile telephone and wristwatch were missing from the country and robbery arsenic a motive could not beryllium ruled out. “Initial enquiries amusement idiosyncratic items were taken from the body,” a elder constabulary authoritative from the Velipalayam constabulary presumption said.
However, constabulary are besides probing different angles including whether the onslaught was carried retired by a section pack oregon owed to a idiosyncratic dispute.
