Triple murder case: After three-day search, police recover missing woman’s body from Perungudi dump yard

Police recover the body of a missing woman from a Chennai dump yard in a triple murder investigation involving her family.

After a three-day search, the police on Friday (January 30, 2026) recovered the body of a woman from Bihar at the Perungudi dump yard in connection with the triple murder case. She, along with her husband Gaurav Kumar, a migrant labourer, and their son, was allegedly murdered on January 24 in Taramani by assailants who were also from Bihar.

On the morning of January 26, passersby noticed blood oozing from a gunny bag near a two-wheeler showroom on 1st Avenue, Indira Nagar, within the limits of the Adyar police station. When alerted, the police rushed to the spot.

In the bag, the police found the body of an unidentified man, aged about 25, with cut injuries to the head. The body was sent to the Government Royapettah Hospital for a post-mortem examination.

A case was registered at the Adyar police station, and the deceased was identified as Gaurav Kumar, a native of Bathiyabar village in Sheikhpura district of Bihar. It was also learnt that he had come to Chennai in search of employment along with his wife and their two-year-old son.

On January 27, based on certain suspicions, Sathyender alias Santhosh Kumar, 30, was questioned. It was revealed that he was a native of Alipur village in Nalanda district of Bihar and was employed as a daytime watchman at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) in Taramani. He got acquainted with Gaurav Kumar after the latter approached him seeking employment.

Gaurav Kumar had been working as a security guard in Sriperumbudur previously. The police said that on January 24, promising to arrange a job for him, Sathyender allowed Gaurav Kumar and his family to stay with him on the fourth floor of a building on the institute’s campus.