Chennai police seek Interpol help to nab murder suspect

CHENNAI: Eight years after a city software engineer went absconding following the murder of his girlfriend and five years after he was declared a proclaimed offender by a court here, police have requested Interpol to issue a red corner notice to trace and nab him. K Dinesh Kumar, a resident of Kellys and an employee of a BPO firm, had disappeared after the body of his 22-year-old girlfriend S Aruna was discovered in the boot of his car on March 9, 2015.
The decision to get Interpol to issue the red corner notice (RCN) follows police commissioner Shankar Jiwal forming a special homicide unit to solve and reinvestigate eight sensational murders and murder-for-gain cases in the city. Officers of the special unit particularly focused on the killing of Aruna.
As per police investigation records, Dinesh and Aruna were in his second-floor apartment when he smashed her head with a flower vase, resulting in instant death. He then wrapped the body in old clothes, took it to the ground floor and was stuffing it in the boot of his car with the help of a guard at the complex when the covering garment flew open. He panicked, abandoned his grisly burden and fled. He is yet to be traced.
Now, the special unit recently got a tip that Dinesh Kumar might have gone abroad, with officers suspecting he could be in the US or Canada. "As we have asked Interpol to issue the RCN, its officers can search the in the suspected countries," said Jiwal Police also plan to reach officials of Indian embassies in a few countries to try and trace the suspect and get him interrogated by the local law enforcement authorities. "If he refuses to cooperate, we will ask a Chennai court to prepare a letter of rogatory to make inquiries with Dinesh Kumar about the murder ," said an officer in the special unit.
Officers of the unit cracked the murder of Seethalakshmi Gurumurthy, 49, at KK Nagar on October 29, 2021, after a suspect arrested last week in connection with the murder of an elderly woman in Adambakkam admitted to it.