Late chief minister of Tamil Nadu J Jayalalithaa's former driver Kanakaraj was found dead in the Salem district of Tamil Nadu. Kanakaraj, who was killed in a road accident, was the prime suspect in the Kodanad Estate murder that took place on Monday, April 24.
A security guard at the Kodanad Tea Estate of late Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa was found hacked to death in the early hours of Monday. Om Bahadur, 41, was found murdered, while another man named Krishna Bahadur suffered serious injuries in the attack, the Hindu reported. The incident took place at gate number 10 of the Kodanad Tea Estate in the Nilgiris. The gates were being manned by the two guards.
A close aide of Kanakaraj and an accused in the Kodanad Tea Estate murder case also met with in a car accident on Saturday in Kerala's Palakkad district. Sayan alias Shyam was critically injured in the accident while his wife and son, who were also travelling with him, died on the spot.
Kanagraj's friend Sayan, an accused in Kodanad estate murder case critically injured after accident in Palakkad, Kerala; his wife &son died. pic.twitter.com/zY5qTuhpBG
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The news of Jayalalithaa's driver's death comes even as the Ooty Police on Saturday arrested three people suspected of having murdered the security guard at Jayalalithaa's Kodanad estate. The Tamil Nadu Police had recently claimed that a Hawala operator based in Kerala, along with a former employee, had conspired to kill Bahadur, India Today reported.
Kanakaraj worked as a driver at Jayalalithaa's Kodanad Tea Estate in Ooty, while Sayan worked at a bakery in Palakkad district.
