Chennai police officers arrest the filmmaker's assistant fifteen days after several body parts of this woman were found discovered at the New Indian Express

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CHENNAI: Sixteen days after the discovery of severed limbs of a woman in a garbage truck, police in Chennai City announced Wednesday that they identified the deceased as Sandhya of Thoothukudi. The police arrested her husband Balakrishnan, badistant director, and interrogated her.

Police said Sandhya came to Chennai with the dream of becoming an actor. She lived with Balakrishnan in Jafferkhanpet, in town. Their son is a grade 12 student and their daughter is in clbad 5. Balakrishnan allegedly murdered him after a fight.

The case was revealed on January 21 at around 6 pm, when trash truck workers saw a woman's severed limbs, wrapped in a plastic bag, as they threw the garbage to the house. discharge from Perungudi. society of the city.

Bewildered, police first made announcements in Chennai and in districts and neighboring states to search for information about this woman. The police also informed the state's Criminal Records Office to verify the cases of missing complaints.

A special team was formed, led by the inspector of Pallikaranani, Albin Raj, to investigate the case. The team interviewed drivers of garbage trucks and scanned CCTV footage where the garbage had been picked up. As two tattoos were seen on the members, the police also interviewed tattoo studios, members of the transgender community and employment agencies employing women.

On Wednesday, police sources said the woman was a Sandhya, originally from Thoothukudi, who had come to the city to become an actress. "She disappeared in the city, but no missing complaints have been filed in this regard," said a police officer. Police said Sandhya was married to 51-year-old Balakrishnan, who was working as an badistant director. He had been arrested for investigation. It is reported that Sandhya went to an all-female police station in Thoothukudi in October 2018 to complain of domestic violence against her husband. After receiving advice from the police, she reportedly sent a letter stating that she wanted a divorce and that she would leave the children in Balakrishnan's brother's custody in Thoothukudi. Sandhya is said to be from Nagercoil.

"On January 19, the couple fought and, enraged, Balakrishnan murdered his wife by banging her head with a sharp object, cut her legs and stuffed them into a plastic bag that 'he was willing to turn off the next day in various bins of the Nagar MGR,' said the officer. From January 21, he continued his work as usual so that the neighbors are no longer wary. The garbage truck in which the limbs were found collected garbage from Kodambakkam and RMGR Nagar.

The police stated that the woman had a son who is studying plus two and one girl in fifth grade. On the basis of information provided by Balakrishnan, the police found the rest of the body and proceeded to new investigations, police said.