The story so far: The Kancheepuram Principal District and Sessions Court on July 24, 2025 convicted V. Abirami of Kundrathur near Chennai for having killed her six-year-old son V. Ajay and four-year-old daughter V. Karnika. The court was convinced that the woman had drugged her children to death at the instance of a biriyani outlet employee Sundaram alias R. Meenakshisundaram with whom she had an extra-marital affair. Though there was no eye-witness to the crime, the prosecution had successfully proved the charges against both the convicts through a strong and unbroken chain of circumstantial evidence. Yet, the trial court did not award the maximum punishment of death sentence to the convicts by quoting Mahatma Gandhi to have said that an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
According to the Kundrathur police, the prime convict Abirami had married bank loan mediator Vijay on January 8, 2011 after falling in love with him and obtaining the consent of both families. The married couple had two kids and the family lived in a rented house on the first floor of a building at Moondram Kattalai near Chennai. In 2018, the woman had developed an intimacy with Meenakshisundaram and it led to strains in the marital relationship with her husband. About 20 days before killing her kids, Abirami had gone missing from her matrimonial home. While her husband, father and brother were clueless about her whereabouts, Ajay told them that she often visits the nearby residence of “an uncle (Meenakshisundaram).” He also stated that he could identify that house. Using the kid’s assistance, they tracked her down and brought her back home. Ever since this incident, she began expressing an hostile attitude towards her children and eventually killed them by offering milk laced with drugs, the prosecution claimed.
