Salon shop owner arrested for murdering employee

Coimbatore: The Vadavalli police on Saturday arrested a 38-year-old businessman for murdering an employee a week ago.
Police identified the deceased as N Kumar, 45, of Manapparai in Trichy, who was working as a hairdresser at the salon owned by P Senthilkumar, 38, of Vignesh Nagar at Sundapalayam near Vadavalli.
Senthilkumar owns two salons at Dheenampalayam and Kalikkanaickenpalayam. Kumar was working at the Dheenampalayam shop and was staying with his colleague N Nandhakumar, 40, of Manapparai, in a room behind a chicken shop owned by Senthilkumar at Onapalayam.
“A few weeks ago, Kumar began to work for Senthilkumar’s business rival Mani, who opened a salon at Avarampalayam. But he did not inform Senthilkumar about the new job. Senthilkumar, who came to know about it, asked Kumar to meet him at the chicken shop on April 10. He rebuked Kumar for abandoning the job. Following an altercation, Senthilkumar and Nandhakumar beat Kumar to death,” a police officer said.
“With the help of S Arulprakash, 33, of Uliyampalayam and P Kapildev, 31, of Kalikkanaickenpalayam, who were working at the chicken shop, they took the body in a car and buried it near a stream at Onapalayam,” the officer added.
The incident came to light on Saturday after Senthilkumar surrendered before the village administrative officer and confessed to the crime. The VAO alerted Vadavalli police, who formed a special team to nab the other three accused. Police plan to retrieve the body.
The four have been booked under sections 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code. tnn