The sons of a government school lab assistant called an insurance company within 15 minutes of their father’s death to initiate a claim, a move that eventually led to the unravelling of a murder-for-insurance plot near Tiruttani, police investigation has revealed.
It may be recalled that a police team recently solved the mystery surrounding the death of the government school lab assistant, whose sons had initially claimed that their father died of snake bite. Following a probe, the police arrested the victim’s two sons along with four others for murdering him by orchestrating a snake bite to claim insurance money.
Tiruvallur Superintendent of Police Vivekanand Shukla told The Hindu, “Our special team found that the sons had contacted one of the insurance companies to claim the policy amount within 15 minutes after a doctor declared their father dead at the hospital. This raised suspicion within the insurance company, following which our investigation revealed that it was a case of murder for insurance money.”
Mr. Shukla said that technical and field-level investigations uncovered the true nature of the crime, which was initially projected as a case of accidental snake bite death. “The investigation brought to light a well-orchestrated criminal conspiracy driven by financial motives, resulting in the murder of the deceased,” he said.
