What initially appeared to be the murder of a migrant worker whose body was found stuffed inside a gunny bag in Adyar has now unfolded into a far more brutal triple murder, with police confirming that the victim’s wife and young child were also killed and their bodies disposed of at different locations.
On the morning of 26 January 2026, residents of First Avenue in Indira Nagar, Adyar, noticed a sack dumped along the roadside with blood oozing from it and alerted the police. A team from the Adyar police station rushed to the spot, opened the sack, and found the body of a man, tied up and bearing multiple bleeding injuries to the head and face, clearly indicating homicide. The body was sent to Government Royapettah Hospital for post-mortem examination.
Subsequent investigation led to the arrest of five persons on Monday. During interrogation, the accused made a shocking disclosure, stating that they had not only murdered the man found in the sack but had also killed his wife and their young child.
Police later identified the deceased man as Gaurav Kumar, a migrant worker from Bihar, aged around 24 years (some reports say he was 35 years), who had come to Chennai seeking employment. He was working as a security guard in the Adyar area and was in the process of taking up work with another security agency. His wife, Munita Kumari, had also accompanied him, and the couple had a young child.
According to police sources, the family had approached the accused in connection with a security guard job. During this period, a dispute arose. Initial police findings indicate that the woman was sexually assaulted in the Taramani area, and when Gaurav Kumar questioned the act, an altercation broke out, leading to the murder of all three family members.
Investigators said CCTV footage from the neighbourhood showed two men arriving on a motorcycle around midnight on Sunday and dumping the sack containing Gaurav Kumar’s body before fleeing. Based on the motorcycle’s registration details, police tracked and detained suspects, leading to the arrests.
Following the confessional statements of the accused, police launched extensive search operations at multiple locations. Searches were carried out at the Perungudi dump yard and along the banks of the Cooum river. With assistance from the fire and rescue services, police recovered the body of the couple’s 2-3-year-old child from a riverbank area near Madhya Kailash. The child’s body has also been sent for post-mortem examination.
The search for Munita Kumari’s body is continuing, with police teams combing several locations based on information provided by the accused. Officials said that the bodies of the three victims were dumped at different places to avoid detection.
Source: DT Next
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