CHENNAI: A 23-year-old woman were arrested on Tuesday for killing her husband by adding sleeping pills to his dosa and strangulating him. Her friend has also been arrested for helping her.
Anupriya, the woman, claimed that her husband Suresh, 26, died of excessive consumption of alcohol. However, autopsy reports revealed that he had consumed excessive sleeping pills and was strangled to death.
During interrogations, Anupriya admitted to have killed him along with her boyfriend, Murasoli Maran, 22.
Suresh, her husband, was working at a meat shop in Puthagaram near Puzhal. He married Anupriya in 2014 in Villupuram. The couple has a four-year-old child. The family was barely able to make ends meet.
Recently, Anupriya got a job at a medical shop in Kolathur. Her husband did not like her being busy on phone calls for long and used to rebuke her.
Police said he raised this issue with her and said he did not like her habit of sending text messages to others late in the night. On some occassions, he also beat her up.
Police said Anupriya decided to eliminate Suresh as she considered him a hindrance to her peaceful life. She took the help of her friend Murasoli, who was from her hometown in Villupuram district.
On Sunday night, she mixed sleeping pills in the dosa batter before serving him dinner. After he fell asleep, she called Murasoli and they both strangulated him. While Murasoli left the house, Anupriya slept beside him and in the morning told neighbours that Suresh had died in sleep due to excess alcohol consumption.
Based on the autopsy report, police confirmed that it was a case of murder. They interrogated her and arrested Murasoli for his role as an accomplice in the crime.
Both were remanded in judicial custody on Tuesday.

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CHENNAI: A Sri Lankan woman with two passports was deported to Colombo by police and immigration officials at Chennai airport on Tuesday. Officials are also suspecting a larger racket of fake passports at play.
The woman, identified as 27-year-old Lishanthi from Negombo in Sri Lanka, was supposed to take a flight to Singapore on October 11 but boarded a Hong Kongbound flight using a forged Canadian passport. She was intercepted in Hong Kong after an alert sounded by Chennai airport officials. She was then brought back to Chennai and deported to Colombo.

On October 11, she arrived at Chennai airport on a connecting flight to Singapore. She completed immigration checks and was supposed to board the Singapore-bound flight, which took off at 2.35am. She, however, did not board the flight and instead took a flight to Hong Kong en route Auckland, where she intended to go to live with her husband.
The issue came to light after airline staff at Chennai airport alerted Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel about a missing transit passenger, Lishanthi.
CISF officials verified CCTV footage at the airport and found that Lishanthi did not board the Singaporebound flight. Instead, she took another flight to Hong Kong en route Auckland. Officials verified chart details of the Hong Kong flight and found that a woman passenger named Udaya Malar Sivanesan had boarded it with a Canadian passport.
Following this, Chennai immigration officer Xavier Dhanraj informed his counterparts in Hong Kong. Based on the instructions, officials in Hong Kong nabbed her and deported her back to Chennai on October 13. After inquiries at Chennai airport, immigration officials sent her back to Colombo.
A probe revealed that Lishanthi had acquired another passport by the name Udaya Malar Sivanesan and had wanted to join her husband Sanjeevan, who was living in Auckland.
She had approached an agent in Sri Lanka to help her reach Auckland. The agent prepared a fake Canadian passport and acquired visas for her travel from Sri Lanka to Singapore via Chennai. He also bought her another flight ticket from Chennai to Auckland via Hong Kong. Lishanthi paid the agent ?4 lakh in advance and promised to hand over the remaining amount upon her arrival in Auckland.
Inquiries revealed that a mediator named Sanjiv handed her a Canadian passport along with a flight ticket to Auckland via Hong Kong at Chennai airport.
Immigration officials are probing a larger racket involving fake passports and the role of airline staff. Though Lishanthi didn’t possess any fake Indian visa or immigration certificates, police personnel are inquiring about Sanjiv for handing over a fake passport to her. Police have not filed any case but have informed the anti-passport racket unit of the city police.

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CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Real Estate Regulatory Authority (TNRERA) directed a developer to refund the money to a city-based home buyer despite the absence of an agreement of construction and sale. The state’s realty regulator took the decision based on receipts provided by the complainant as proof of payment.
The October 4 order by TNRERA adjudicating officer G Saravanan said the complainant T Pankaja was eligible for refund of Rs 9.85 lakh, the amount he paid with 10.15% interest and Rs 1 lakh compensation for the mental agony caused as the project did not commence, besides Rs 20,000 towards litigation expenses.
The order said the complainant had booked a flat in a housing project named ‘Vasavi Ingai’ promoted by Vasavi Meppur Constructions at Meppur near Poonamallee by paying Rs9.85 lakh on September 22, 2013. No agreement of sale and construction was entered into by the buyer and developer. The project soon was a non-starter. Later, when the promoter came up with a proposal to convert the project into a villa, Pankaja wanted to withdraw from the project and demanded a refund.
Following this, he filed a complaint with TNRERA. According to TNRERA sources, the complainant had filed receipts comprising the cheque number as proof of payment, brochures and a letter by the promoter regarding the housing project. "Though there was no agreement regarding the construction, we invoked the Contract Act 1872 since this case fell under the ambit of oral contract. Moreover, Section 31 of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, states that any aggrieved person can file a complaint with the adjudicating officer for any violation or contravention rules against the promoter," a TNRERA official said.
The order was delivered based on these criteria with sufficient evidence for monetary transaction that came in handy, the official added.

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CHENNAI: The June 23 election to Nadigar Sangam (South Indian Film Artists Association) is invalid as it was not conducted in accordance with the association’s bylaws, Tamil Nadu government told the Madras high court on Tuesday.
Additional advocate general of Tamil Nadu P H Arvindh Pandian also told Justice K Kalyanasundaram the registrar of societies had every right to probe complaints filed by association members and, if needed, appoint special officers to monitor its affairs.
He said there was no provision in the bylaws to extend the tenure of office-bearers and, hence, the election conducted by office-bearers whose term had expired was invalid. Recording the submissions, Justice Kalyanasundaram adjourned the hearing to October 18.
Though the elections were concluded three months ago, votes were not counted nor results declared after an interim stay by the court. The stay order was issued in view of alleged irregularities in the postal ballots and as the poll was announced after the tenure of the office-bearers ended. The litigation started after the registrar of societies deferred election to the association indefinitely over allegations that names of 61 members were removed from the rolls just days before the poll. Challenging the order, actor Vishal, general secretary of the association, moved the high court. After several rounds of hearings, the high court finally permitted elections on June 23.
When the pleas came up for hearing on Tuesday, Vishal’s counsel submitted that about 80% of the association members had voted and that the new elected office-bearers needed to be urgently declared for the association’s smooth functioning. It was further alleged that the state government was interfering in the association’s affairs by appointing a special officer.

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