CHENNAI: A 33-year-old autorickshaw driver was stabbed to death by a man over the relationship with his daughter at the victim’s residence in Chakkarapani Thottam on Paper Mills Road in Perambur on Tuesday night. Sembium police arrested the 53-year-old accused, identified as Babu.
The deceased, Ramesh, lived separately from his wife, Sharmila, and had been in a relationship with Gayathri, 31, Babu’s daughter, for the past seven months.
Babu had objected to their relationship, but the two continued to meet, police said. Both men were under the influence of alcohol when an argument broke out. After a while, Ramesh’s grandmother, Palaniyammal, found him dead and alerted neighbours, who informed the police. Inspector Gopal of Sembium police station recovered the body and sent it to Kilpauk Medical College Hospital for postmortem examination. Police registered a murder case and arrested Babu on murder charges.
Babu went to Ramesh’s house around 9pm on Tuesday, according to police. He was produced before a magistrate court on Wednesday and remanded in judicial custody.