Cops clueless on Madipakkam murder
Cops clueless on Madipakkam murder
CHENNAI/VELLORE: Fingerprints of relatives and frequent visitors to the house were being gathered as police remain clueless in the..

CHENNAI/VELLORE: Fingerprints of relatives and frequent visitors to the house were being gathered as police remain clueless in the murder case of an octogenarian at Madipakkam.Police said they were investigating the case by gathering fingerprints of relatives of Padmasini (80), who was found murdered in her house on Selvaganapathy Street, Ullagaram, Madipakkam, on Friday. Fingerprints of frequent visitors to the old woman’s house including LPG cylinder supplier, milkman and a mechanic were also being gathered. Cops, who were yet to make a breakthrough in the case, said the fingerprints would be compared to those gathered from the scene of crime.Padmasini, who lived alone in the house, would usually keep the front door and the grill gate at the entrance closed and would not open it unless it was someone known to her at the door. Police said that they had found the lock and the key of the front door lying on a table in the house and suspected that someone known to the woman could have been involved in the case.On Friday, the old woman’s neighbour had found the front door and the gate in the house open and later found the 80-year-old dead in her house with her hands and legs tied up with cloth towels and another towel around her neck indicating that the woman could have been strangulated, police said. Thirty two sovereigns of gold the woman had worn were stolen, police added.One dead, four injured in road accidentShankar (24) died and four others were injured in a road accident after a cargo van carrying vegetables toppled over at a signal near Meenambakkam on Tuesday. Police said the deceased and his brother Sekar (30) ran a vegetable shop. Five persons including the driver were injured.One Held for Selling Illicit LiquorOne person was caught red handed for selling illicit liquor and 1,000 litres of illicit liquor was seized from him, in Vellore on Tuesday.Cops conducted a search operation in Netaji Nagar, when they found Sivalingam (42) of the same area to be involved in the crime. Police has registered a case. He was immediately arrested.Phones Stolen in PernambutAs many as 350 cell phones were found missing at a cell shop in Pernambut, near Gudiyatham.The incident came to light, when the owner of the shop, situated at the Asraf Veedhi in Pernambut came on Tuesday morning to open.  Suhail Ahmed had closed the shop on Monday night after business hours. When he came on Tuesday morning, he found the lock of the shop broken and 350 cell phones estimated at around ` 33,000 missing.

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