Tamil Nadu: Driver Kills US-Returned Chennai Couple, Steals Rs 5 Crore Worth Gold & Silver. Arrested

Driver Kills Chennai Couple: In the shocking double murder of a Chennai couple, allegedly by their driver-cum-domestic help, Police have recovered Rs 5 crore worth of jewellery from the accused

Representative Image of recovering the buried bodies. ( Image Source :Getty )

New Delhi: In the shocking double murder of a couple, who returned from the US, allegedly by their driver-cum-domestic help, in Chennai, Police have recovered Rs 5 crore worth of jewellery including nine kilograms of gold and 50 kg silver from the accused.

The couple, senior executive Srikanth, 58, and his wife Anuradha, 52, had returned to their home in Chennai after ten months of their stay in the US with their daughter, Sunantha.

Driver Lal Krishna, who is from Nepal and who was working with them for the past ten years, picked them up and dropped them at their home. However, when the daughter tried to contact her parents, their phones were found switched off.

The panicked daughter called their relatives and asked them to file a police complaint. Police on reaching the home found bloodstains and on enquiry, found that the couple had a farm house at Nemmeli on the ECR.

Police tracked Lal Krishna and his friend Ravi and found that they were travelling to Kolkata and informed the Andhra Pradesh Police, who intercepted the duo at Ongole. On questioning, they confessed that they had beaten the couple to death.

They also informed the police that they had buried the bodies at the farmhouse at Nemmeli and police recovered the bodies.

Lal Krishna and his parents were working for Srikanth and Anuradha for the past ten years. However, Lal Krishna, according to police, had sent his parents back to Nepal a few weeks ago.