CHENNAI: Ramachandran and Prasanna , whose daughter Sandhya was murdered by her husband S R balakrishnan, were inconsolable at the Pallikaranai police station on Wednesday, demanding that their estranged son-in-law be sentenced to death. "We should not have allowed our daughter to go to Chennai in December. He (Balakrishnan) should be given death penalty," said Prasanna, who runs a tea shop in Thovazhai.She said her daughter was not at all keen on becoming an actor. "It’s all his (Balakrishnan’s) imagination. He tortured my daughter and tonsured her head more than seven times to disfigure her. "Family members of Sandhya said Balakrishnan had been harassing her over the years, constantly suspecting her fidelity.Her aunts Radha and Usha said Sandhya of Arumanallur in Kanyakumari was in her teens when Balakrishnan of Tuticorin, nearly 15 years older than her, married her. But, it was her beauty that resulted in all the problems as he grew suspicious of her, they said. Sandhya and Balakrishnan were living separately as their divorce case was being fought at a Chennai court.Sandhya’s kin said she recently came into some money after selling her portion of an ancestral property. Right after that her husband had asked her to come to Chennai, saying they would put their differences behind and live together.Balakrishnan informed her parents that she planned to go abroad and settle there. As Sandhya told her parents that she was staying with Balakrishnan after going to Chennai, they tried to reach her several times but in vain. When contacted, Balakrishnan claimed she had been advised rest, which made Sandhya’s parents suspicious. However, before they could go to police, Balakrishnan lodged a complaint, saying his wife was missing.<doc-sep>CHENNAI:The identity of a woman, whose body parts were found in a sack at a dump yard in Chennai on January 21 has finally been established. It is that of a 35-year-old Sandhya, who was fighting a divorce case with her husband Bakakrishnan. Sandhya was a home maker.And the offender is none other than Bakakrishnan himself. Sandhya, who belongs to Thoothukudi, was murdered by him as he suspected her fidelity, police told TOI on Wednesday.Balakrishnan told police that he first murdered her and cut her into several pieces before dumping them in a dustbin at Power House in Kodambakkam . While the dismembered arms and legs found their way into Pallikaranai dumping yard and were recovered by police on January 21,head and torso part of Sandhya are yet to be traced.Police arrested Bakakrishnan and are interrogating him to ascertain as to how and where did he dispose of the other body parts of Sandhya.The dismembered body parts were first motive by Chennai Corporation staff who were levelling waste at the dumping yard in Pallikaranai using an earthmover. The assistant engineer immediately alerted police.The body parts were packed in a gunny bag. The right hand had been severed from the shoulder and two legs from under the knees. Police could conclude that it was a woman, since the severed hand had a bangle. A dragon and Siva Parvathi image were tattooed on the hand.<doc-sep>Dealing with a murder was not a new thing to him. But this time, the floor was not in a studio but at his 10*10 room in Jafferkhanpet and the plot was in real life. He was the protagonist and his estranged wife the victim Kollywood film director S R Balakrishnan , who murdered Sandhya on January 19 and was arrested on Tuesday, told police he smashed her head with a hammer after failing to convince her to give up her dream of becoming an actor.Balakrishnan told police he cut up the body, scraped off the flesh, before twisting and twirling the bones and packing the parts into differed plastic covers that he sealed to ensure they didn’t fall out.He made a few trips to dump the body parts — one to drop a bag in a bin behind Kasi theatre, another on the road leading towards Jafferkhanpet and yet another on the banks of the Adyar — all between 12.30am and 1am. While one bag, with three limbs, was discovered in a Pallikaranai dump on January 21, the second bag was found on Wednesday. The third and possibly a fourth are yet to be found.After the disposal, he returned home, washed his blood-stained room clean and went to bed. Life had to be lived. He began watching TV and reading newspapers for ‘developments’ in the case. He called up his mother-in-law R Prasanna, of Thovazhai in Kanyakumari district, saying Sandhya had planned to travel abroad to take up a job. This was apparently to ensure her family would not lodge a missing complaint. Last week, Balakrishnan himself lodged a complaint with the Tuticorin police, saying his wife was missing.The Tuticorin police then called Prasanna who said her daughter was in Chennai and if something had happened to her, it would be because of Balakrishnan.Prasanna told police Balakrishna had never been loving toward Sandhya in 17 years of their marriage life, that he had tonsured her head so that no one would look at her.After Balakrishnan’s arrest, police said they identified the woman with the help of a dragon tattoo on her limbs. When investigation officer Albin Raj questioned Balakrishnan, nothing in his answers created any suspicion. “We searched his mobile phone gallery for his wife’s photo but found none. Finally, we found a photo showing the tattoo on her limbs. It matched that found on a body part recovered from the dump yard.”Balakrishnan initially denied any role in the death before finally admitting to the crime. “I didn’t like her acting. She didn’t pay heed to my plea. She spoke to many men. This pushed me into killing her on January 19,” he said.On an earlier occasion, a police officer said, Sandhya had consumed an overdose of sleeping pills and attempted to end her life, as he was against her plan to take up acting. He rescued her and admitted her to a private hospital.<doc-sep>Chennai savagery: Police still trying to find head and torso of murdered woman While legs and a hand were found at the Pallikarnai dumpyard in Chennai, another limb has been recovered from the Adyar river bank. news Crime On January 21, the capital city of Tamil Nadu woke up to news of a gruesome crime. Corporation staff who were leveling waste at the Pallikarnai dumpyard, found to their utter shock, the mangled limbs of a woman in a plastic bag. The police were immediately alerted and investigations were launched to first identify the victim and then nab her murderer. And to the shock of the city's residents closely following the case, the man behind the brutal crime, was the husband of the woman herself, film director SR Balakrishnan. Chennai police have now arrested the director for the murder of his 35-year-old wife Sindhu and have produced him before the Alandur court. While two legs and a hand were found at the Pallikarnai dumpyard, another limb has been recovered from the Adyar river bank. The police are currently trying to find the head and torso of the victim at the dumpyard. 10 policemen have been deployed at the site to recover the missing body parts. Multiple excavators are being used to sift through over two weeksâ€™ worth of garbage. During the interrogation, Balakrishnan admitted to making multiple trips to dispose of the body. "On January 19, he bludgeoned her to death with a hammer and once she was dead, he scraped of skin from the joints before cutting off the limbs. He then put the limbs in different bags," an investigating official told TNM. "We are still looking for the head and torso. Further investigations will reveal the exact motive of the crime," he adds. Police sources further told TNM that Sindhu wanted to be an actor but Balakrishnan was against it. He also suspected that she was having extra marital affairs. Balakrishnan had made a movie called Kadhal Ilavasam in 2015 that had not received a positive response. When the limbs were found on January 21, the police only had one clue to identify her â€“ a tattoo on her right hand. Following this, they sent out alerts to police stations across the state to find if there was any information on such a woman. Finally, Thoothukudi police confirmed that a missing complaint was filed by Sandhya's mother. "When we spoke to the mother she said that she suspected Balakrishnan would have murdered Sandhya," says the officer. "After killing her, he called her mother and said that she was going abroad for some job to cover his tracks," the officer alleges.<doc-sep>
Police discover identity of woman whose limbs were found in Chennai dumpyard When the limbs were found on January 21, the police only had one clue to identify her – a Shiva Parvathi tattoo on her right hand. news Murder Two weeks after the Chennai police discovered human body parts at the Pallikaranai dumpyard, the identity of the victim, a woman, has been established. The severed hand and two legs found in a gunny bag belong to 35-year-old Sandhya, a mother of two children, police said. An investigating officer who has been handling the case told TNM that Sandhya was allegedly murdered by her husband. According to police sources, Sandhya’s husband Balakrishnan, whom she had been married to for 17 years, suspected that she was having an affair and murdered her in a fit of rage. When the limbs were found on January 21, the police only had one clue to identify her – a Shiva Parvathi tattoo on her right hand. Following this, they sent out alerts to police stations across the state to find if there was any information on such a woman. Finally, Thoothukudi police confirmed that a missing complaint was filed by Sandhya's mother. "Sandhya was murdered on January 19. She and her husband were both staying in Chennai. He suspected her fidelity and murdered her," said the investigating official, "He admitted it when we questioned him.” Reports suggest that the police found similar gunny bags in Balakrishnan's residence in Jafferkhanpet. The police reportedly also possess CCTV footage in connection to the case. They are now interrogating Balakrishnan in a secret location and trying to find out where he dumped other body parts of the victim. Her hand and legs were first found by the staff of the Chennai corporation who were levelling waste at the Pallikaranai dumpyard. The police were then informed, leading to a two week investigation. Her limbs were sent to Rajiv Gandhi government hospital for a medical examination and a team of three doctors conducted the post mortem. Primary reports confirmed that is was a woman and that her limbs were chopped off after she was murdered. A sharp machete was used by the murderer to cut off her body parts.