alavandhar case.A case study in Tamil nadu.pptx

Case study

1. 1952 ALAVANDAR MURDER CASE

2. The main character ( the Victim) - Alavandar -Age 40 a family man with 2 children and wife -Belongs to K omatti Chetti -Sub divisional officer at army Head quarters at Avadi during world war 2 -Got discharged after independence from British Indian army -Later started a gem and co fountain pens company

3. Accused -DEVAKI MENON -Women from K erala -20s college graduate -PRABAKAR MENON -( D evaki’s husband )

4. Alavandar character sketch The womanizer and drug addict He was an opium addict Sex addiction Alavandar believed that opium is an aphrodisiac Fulfilling his sex addiction by having sex with girls who are unable to pay their instalments

5. Devaki enters Alavandar life Being in relationship with him and opened it to their parents. Devaki found out how bad of drug addict & womanizer alavandar was broke up and informed to parents for marrying Menon

6. Alavandar gone missing 29 th August 1952 Mrs. Alavandar filed missing case in the Police station

7. The malodorous train - Indo Ceylon express Started from more to Dhanushkodi - Passengers from a compartment complaining about the Bad smell from a trunk box

8. Inside the Box Nude body Head cut off Legs and hands cut off Thick thread tied on the waist Green socks on foot Circumcised penis

9. Body found on train was sent to DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS FOR AUTOPSY WHICH WAS DONE BY DR. KRISHNASWAMI REPORT ******** The body is around 25 years old. Fusion of 2 bones happen in lower back at that age.

10. SAME TIME AT ROYAPURAM Head was found at Royapuram beach At plastic bag further wrapped with brown t-shirt WAS SENT TO MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE FORENSIC DEPARTMENT FOR POST MORTEM Results ****** -test were done and confirmed head and body are matched Attack on head done with sharp weapon Mrs. Alavandar was asked to confirm that corpse was Alavandar’s His fingerprints were confirmed with the prints got from his retired army.

11. What actually happened at devaki’s home Devaki called Alavandar to her husband at the cemetery road on 28 August 1952. There the couple murdered Alavandar , cut his head off and buried it at Royapuram beach in Chennai. They put the body in a trunk and left it in the Indo-Ceylon Express. Then they left C hennai to Bombay.

12. EVIDENCES The police piled up more evidence- Devaki’s blood-stained saree , which matched Alavandar’s b lood-type, blood found in the house, a s blood-stained palm print on the wall, which is matched Prabhakara’s palm and Alavandar’s blood.

13. The final verdict After much deliberation, the jury ( a system that prevailed then) found the defendants, Devaki’s and Prabhakar , guilty of Culpable Homicide. On 13 August 1953 , Justice AS Panchapakesa Iyer awarded a seven-year rigorous imprisonment sentence to Prabhakar for Culpable Homicide and sentenced Devaki to three years in Prison.

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