CUDDALORE: Cuddalore district police on Friday recovered the body of a young woman buried halfway under a mound of soil near Kannuthoppu bridge under Vadalur police limits.
Police said the body was found along the Neyveli-Vadalur road where work on the Vikravandi-Kumbakonam National Highway bypass is under way. Large quantities of soil had been dumped at the site for the road project. Passersby noticed the partially buried body with a disfigured face and alerted the police.
Villupuram SP VV Sai Praneeth, DSPs Radhakrishnan of Neyveli, Tamil Iniyan of Cuddalore and Balakrishnan of Vriddhachalam, along with police personnel, rushed to the spot and conducted an inquiry. The body was later sent to Kurinjipadi government hospital for autopsy examination.
The Village Administrative Officer S Sriraman stated that the woman was wearing orange leggings, a dark pink coloured chudidhar with white floral patterns and a sandal-coloured dupatta. He also stated that the victim’s mouth and part of the face were covered with a shawl and that the body was found with a slit throat and foul smell, raising suspicion of murder.
Police suspect the deceased could be around 30 years old and may have died two days ago. Police said they are probing various angles, including whether the woman was murdered and buried at the spot, sexually assaulted and killed, or murdered elsewhere and dumped there.
The deceased was identified as Manjula, a resident of Vadalur.
CM Vijay in deep sleep mode, says Udhaya
Leader of the Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin on Friday denounced the brutal murder of a 25-year-old woman in Cuddalore, lambasting the TVK government for its inept handling of law and order. In a post on X, Udhayanidhi said, “Looking at these crimes happening continuously, people are beginning to doubt whether law and order exists in Tamil Nadu at all.” Taking a dig at the CM, he said, “During the election campaign, he spoke punch dialogues about law and order, reading page after page of notes. The moment he became CM, he went into deep sleep mode.”