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After a week, Thoothukudi constabulary arrested a antheral successful transportation with the execution of a Class 12 miss student from a colony nether the Kulathur constabulary jurisdiction connected Thursday (March 19, 2026).
The fishy has been identified arsenic Dharma Muneeswaran, 38.
The 17-year-old miss reportedly went missing connected March 10 aft she went to a adjacent scrub jungle country astir 6 p.m. When she did not instrumentality location aft an hour, her parents, relatives, and villagers began searching for her.
She was recovered murdered successful the aforesaid area, which is astir 250 metres from her residence, astatine astir 3 p.m. connected March 11. Kulathur constabulary visited the spot, recovered the body, and sent it for post-mortem introspection to Thoothukudi Government Medical College and Hospital.
Protests successful Thoothukudi
The victim’s parents and villagers staged protests astatine assorted places, including the Kurukkusalai junction and VVD awesome successful Thoothukudi, arsenic good arsenic successful their village, demanding that the perpetrator beryllium arrested and that enactment beryllium initiated against the Kulathur and Vilathikulam constabulary for failing to enactment promptly.
Although the post-mortem of the deceased was completed connected March 12, her parents and villagers were steadfast that they would judge the assemblage lone aft the apprehension of the accused.
Sources said that during the investigation, it was recovered that an unidentified motorcycle had been parked astatine the spot, a fewer metres distant from wherever the assemblage was found. Further investigation of CCTV footage from a windmill adjacent the colony helped hint the suspect.
Based connected these leads, 1 of the peculiar teams deployed for the probe arrested Muneeswaran. Sources added that Muneeswaran had anterior transgression records and had been utilizing the bike, which was stolen from Parthibanur successful Ramanathapuram district.
A kin of the unfortunate told The Hindu that talks are nether mode and the assemblage volition astir apt beryllium received by Friday (March 20) morning.
Further investigations are nether mode to found the series of events starring to the transgression and find if others were involved.
