Upset with Kerala businessman, Assam migrant kills him & his wife: ‘Brutality shows his grudge’
Early April, when a migrant worker from Assam who had been in judicial custody for allegedly having stolen some money, was released from jail, he found that the crime had extracted a steep price — his live-in partner had left him. Enraged, he allegedly went to murder the person he saw as responsible for his situation — the complainant in his case, a Kottayam based businessman T K Vijayakumar and his wife Meera.
On Wednesday, the Kottayam Police arrested Amit Orang, the 23-year-old migrant worker, for the twin murders, from a poultry farm in Thrissur, where he had sought asylum after the crime on Monday night. Vijayakumar was running a convention centre in Kottayam.
According to Kottayam District Police Superintendent Shahul Hameed, the arrested migrant worker and his partner – also from Assam — had been employed by Vijayakumar at his house. In September last year, Orang allegedly stole Vijayakumar’s mobile phone and siphoned off Rs 1.50 lakh from his account.
“We had then registered an FIR against him in connection with the incident. In November last, he was arrested. Early this month, he got bail and realised that his live-in partner had abandoned him,” said the SP.
After this, Orang tried to get Vijaykumar to withdraw the case but the latter refused to settle. According to the police, Monday night, an enraged Orang scaled the walls of Vijaykumar’s highly secure two-storeyed house, used a hand drill to break open the window pane next to the door and reached inside to unlock the house. He allegedly hacked the couple to death using a hatchet.
“The couple’s faces were disfigured. The brutality indicates his grudge towards them. Nothing was stolen from the house,” the SP said, adding that Orang allegedly took away the digital video recorder used to record videos in the house’s CCTV security system.
Significantly, the couple were brutally murdered exactly a month after the Central Bureau of Investigation began a probe into the 2017 death of their 28-year-old son Gautham, an entrepreneur in Technopark in Thiruvananthapuram, whose body was found on a railway track in Kottayam.
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According to the SP, the couple’s murders were not linked to the mysterious death of their son.
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