A 39-year-old woman was allegedly murdered by a 20-year-old youth on Wednesday afternoon in the staff quarters in the campus of the B.S. Abdur Rahman University in Vandalur after she objected to her daughter’s love affair with him.
The victim was identified as Daulat Nisha, wife of Hiyajuddin, a librarian at a private engineering university.
The police suspects that Santhanam, who is the son of a policeman, gained entry into the house when the victim was alone and slit her neck using a knife as he believed that she was against his affair with her second daughter who is 17 years old.
The police said that they were on the lookout for Santhanam, a diploma holder in computer science.
Santhanam and the two daughters of Hiyajuddin-Nisha couple were school mates. While the girls were doing diploma in a private college, Santhanam completed his diploma in another institution.
“It seems the youth got the impression that her lover’s mother was strongly against the love affair because the two were from two different religions,” the police said.
The girl might have told him that mother was against love affair with a youth from another religion, police said.
The murder in the university’s residential area had left many people shocked. Police, however, indicated that there was no witness. “There is no witness but it seems that Santhanam had managed to gain entry and commit the murder. He is missing,” the police said, adding that they would catch the accused soon.