Police are on the lookout for the unidentified person, who strangulated an elderly woman to death, near SV Colony Road in Tirupur, and robbed five sovereigns of jewellery from her.
Tirupur: Police are on the lookout for the unidentified person, who strangulated an elderly woman to death, near SV Colony Road in Tirupur, and robbed five sovereigns of jewellery from her.
Muthusamy and Chandramani are residents of TSR Layout, SV Colony Main Road, near Tiruppur.
Both of them lived alone in the house and their sons run a chemical company near their house and they live in KPN Colony.
Chandramani, who got up at 4.50 a.m. opened the front gate of the house and was cooking for her husband when an unidentified person entered the house without anyone noticing.
As he did not come out for a long time, Muthusamy became suspicious and checked out. Shockingly enough he found his wife’s body in a pool of blood in the kitchen.
Muthusamy, who was shocked to see his wife in a pool of blood, informed the police.
Tirupur North police, who arrived at the crime spot, recovered Chandramani's body and sent it to the government hospital for post-mortem.
When the police scanned the CCTV footage installed in the house, they found out that a 55-year-old man had entered the house and left shortly thereafter.
The police investigation revealed that the unidentified man slit Chandramani's throat and stole the 5 sovereigns of jewellery from her.
Further investigations are on.