Decomposed body with gunshot wounds recovered in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 23 May 2006, 06:58 GMT]
Valaichenai ploice recovered a body of a male in semi-decomposed state with guns shot wounds at Pandimadu in Valaichenai police division Sunday 21st May on receiving information fro Pandimadu residents, said the police. At the inquest held by Additional Magistrate Mr. Ushan, the dead man's uncle S. Nagarajah, identified the body as belonging to Mahalingam Vijayakumar, a textile trader from Tamil Nadu, police added.

Nagarajah in his statement to the Magistrate further said that Vijayakumar, a father of one child, was one of more than 25 Tamil Nadu textile peddlers presently staying at a lodge in Batticaloa and that complaint was made to the Valaichenai police when Vijayakumar was found missing from the 18th of May 2006.

The Additional Magistrate ordered Village Officer A. Vasanthakumar for the remains of Vijayakumar to be buried at state expense.