Residents of Valsarvakkam were in for a rude shock after skeleton of a man was found hanging in a hut in the locality on Wednesday morning.
Police said rag picker boy, who was searching for scrap metal items in a garbage dump located behind a petrol bunk along Arcot Road, found the skeleton in the adjacent hut.
He immediately raised an alarm and fellow rag pickers informed the police. Valsarvakkam police said the skeleton is that of an unidentified man. Police suspect that the man could have died at least three months back and the body could have been hanging since then. Investigations were on to identify the man.
Meanwhile, locals were shocked when news spread about the recovery of the skeleton. “We heard about it in the morning. It’s scary to hear that a man had been lying dead in our locality for weeks together. None of us go to that ground so there is no way any of the residents could have seen it before. We have no idea if someone was staying there,” said Karthik, a resident of the locality.
Woman kills self
Apparently frustrated by the abject poverty she was living in, Devi (30) committed suicide by jumping off the third floor of a building at New Washermenpet on Wednesday. Police said Devi, wife of a weaver Elumalai and a resident of Arani, walked into a house on Ilaya Mudali Street at VOC Nagar in New Washermenpet and jumped off the third floor on early Wednesday morning.
Devi sustained grievous injuries and died on the way to Stanley Medical Hospital. Police said Devi and her husband, along with their two-month-old child, had come to the city in search of work. They were staying with Devi’s brother in VOC Nagar.
As both of them were unemployed, the couple used to quarrel frequently. Police said moments prior to the suicide, Devi had spoken with her husband from her mobile phone.
DTH official held
Two persons, including a deputy manager of a popular direct broadcast satellite service provider, were arrested after a dealer complained that the company’s failure to provide proper service had cost him Rs 7 lakh.
Police said a team from the CCB arrested Balaram, deputy manager in the company offering DTH services and Balaji, former area manager following a complaint from one of the company’s dealers Ramachandran (45).
A senior official from the CCB said Ramachandran had lodged a complaint alleging that he had paid a deposit of Rs 1 lakh to the company to get a dealership to provide the DTH service to customers in Perumbur. He had also set up an office at a cost of Rs 6 lakh. “But the company did not offer the services to the dealer according to the agreement they had undertaken. Hence, the dealer could not offer proper services to his customers,” the police official said.
Police sources said Ramachandran had initially lodged a complaint with the Mylapore police this month stating that the company’s officials were not refunding his money. He later met the City Police Commissioner and filed a complaint.
Subsequently, CCB officials took up the case and registered case against three persons, including the two arrested.