Sunday, 1 September 2013

Woman rescued from captivity

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                                                              Kumaran and Vanitha.

Chennai: A former woman CPI coun­­cillor from Sivaga­ngai municipality, aged 36, who went missing four days back from her native place, was rescued from a home in Sripuram, at St Thomas Mo­u­nt, Chennai, on Sat­u­r­day where she had been kept in captivity.

She was found with her hair cut and had cut injuries all over her body, inflicted using a blade. The police arrested a former DMK councillor from Sivag­angai, who had allegedly kept her in captivity in his house in Chennai.“Former councillor Van­i­­tha was rescued after she called the city police control room usi­ng the mobile phone whi­ch her abductor had lef­t in the room by mistak­e before locking her inside,” the police said on Sunday.

The police arrested Kumaran, 37, another former councillor from Sivagangai. “The two were very close and we suspect that they were involved in an extra-marital relationship. Vanitha had been living with her mother after getting separated from her husband and during the last two years, her relationship with Kumaran beca­me stron­ger.

How­ever, Kumaran started doubting that she was having a relationship with another person and brought her to Chennai to ‘teach her a lesson’,” the police said.

He brought her to his city home where she was locked up in a room. He cut off her long hair and also inflicted inju­ries on her body, using a bla­de. On Saturday, wh­en he went out, he had le­ft one of his mobile phones in her room by mis­take. Using the pho­ne, Vanitha called the cit­y police control room and also informed her mo­­ther and brother ab­out her situation, the police said.

The police rescued her after receiving the SOS. “The police managed to be latch on to the trail of Kumaran, who was staying in a hotel in the city, by tracking the signals of his second mobile phone,” said the police. He was arrested under sections relating to woman harassment and attempt to murder.

States: Tamil Nadu

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