Kodnad estate murder case: Tamil Nadu CB-CID to question more people
Chennai (IANS) | The Tamil Nadu Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID) will soon interrogate some more people in the Kodnad estate murder case. On April 24, 2017, there was an attempted theft at Kodanad Estate, when a group of people barged into the premises. This incident happened in the memory of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Four months after the death of Jayalalithaa and her aide V.K. It was two months after Sasikala’s arrest.
According to the police, on April 23, 2017, 11 men barged into the Kodnad estate and killed Om Bahadur, the guard of the estate.
Another guard Krishna Thapa was attacked and seriously injured.
The thieves escaped with 10 valuable watches and other items.
In connection with this incident, a special team of CB-CID raided the residential quarters of Deputy Superintendent of Police Kanagaraj on Thursday.
Kanagaraj AIADMK General Secretary and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s former security officer.
The CB-CID team interrogated Kanagaraj for three hours and based on the information provided by him, more people would be called for questioning.
Kodanad Estate is a sprawling 900-acre property in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu and is jointly owned by Jayalalithaa and Sasikala.
Kanakaraj, Jayalalithaa’s former driver and ‘accused number one’ in the Kodnad theft, was killed in a road accident on the Salem-Chennai highway five days after the theft.
At the same time, another accused KV Sion and his family met with an accident in Palakkad when a truck hit the car in which he and his family were traveling. Sion’s wife and daughter were killed in the accident.
A few months later Dinesh Kumar, the accountant of the Kodnad estate, committed suicide.
The DMK, in its election campaign for the 2021 assembly polls, had said that if voted to power again in Tamil Nadu, it would conduct a detailed probe into the Kodanad estate case. After taking charge, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin ordered a re-investigation and a special team of CB-CID was constituted.
–IANS
