Coimbatore: Victim identified, 3 held in severed arm case

COIMBATORE: Police have arrested three people, including a woman, in connection with the murder of a 39-year-old man, whose left arm was found in a garbage truck at Thudiyalur on September 15. South zone IG R Sudhakar identified the victim as R Prabhu of Sankarapalayam in Erode district, and an employee of Ole Beauty Parlour in Gandhipuram. A missing case was registered at based on the complaint from Prabhu's wife P Shanthi.
After finding the severed arm, police analysed 50 missing cases and noticed the case in Kattoor police station. "We checked Prabhu's room at Ganapathy Maa Nagar and lifted fingerprints and matched them with the fingerprints retrieved from the severed arm. We picked up R Kavitha, 39, owner of the house, where Prabhu was staying," the officer said.
Kavitha, who was running a beauty parlour in Saravanampatti, was in a relationship with Prabhu, which had turned sour, Sudhakar said. "She decided to finish him off as he was blackmailing her. She invited Prabhu to her house on the night of September 14 and killed him with the help of her friends R Amul Divakar, 34, of Bannari Kali Amman Temple Road at Ganapathy, an electrician and R Karthick, 28, of Gandhipuram." "We have recovered the head and torso and are searching for four missing parts," the officer added. TNN