VELLORE: Investigation into the death of a nine-year-old boy has shown the chilling killing spree of a 21 year-old woman, who eliminated three of her in-laws to keep her extra-marital affair under wraps.
Police said, the woman Shilpa poisoned her sisters-in-law Udhya Kumari (7) in October 2014 and Lakhsmi (8) in February 2015. Police exhumed the two children’s bodies in the presence of Vaniyambadi tahsildar Senthil, DSP of Tirupattur, K Subramaniam and assistant director of forensics K Pari on Thursday. Samples from the bodies were sent for analysis.
Shilpa got married to Udhaya Kumar (29) of Kurusilapet a year ago. The couple was living with Kumar’s father Balu (56) and step brother and sisters. Kumar is an electrician working at construction sites in metro cities and comes home once a week or every ten days.
It is learnt that Shilpa was in a relationship with Saravanan (26) of Palkode before her marriage. She continued the relationship after marriage and frequently spoke to Saravanan on phone.
Fearing that her father-in-law Balu may have sensed the affair, Shilpa and Saravanan decided to eliminate him and the kids who were his second wife’s children.
Udhya Kumari was her first victim. In October last year, Shilpa gave Kumari tea laced with rat poison. After drinking it Kumari took ill and was taken to the Dharmapuri GH, where she died. Doctors treated the child for vomiting and dysentery.
Three months later, Shilpa repeated her ghastly act resulting in Lakshmi’s death on February 19. Shilpa then decided to eliminate Lakshman and Balu and gave them milk laced with rat poison on Saturday.
Balu and his younger son fell ill and were taken to Government Hospital ,Tirupattur. While the boy died, Balu survived.
“Balu told his relatives that Shilpa was behind the death of his nine-year-old son as they both fell ill after drinking the milk,” said the cop investigating the case.
A police complaint was lodged and during interrogation, Shilpa confessed to the killing and disclosed her paramour’s identity.
Shilpa and Saravanan were arrested and lodged in the central prison in Vellore.
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