CHENNAI: A taxi driver was arrested in Kodambakkam for allegedly murdering his septuagenarian stepfather due to a property dispute, on Friday. According to the police, Srinivasan, a taxi driver at the Central Railway Station, murdered his 74-year-old stepfather Muthusamy, an ex-serviceman, on Friday morning, and was caught when he was trying to flee in a train at the Kodambakkam Railway Station.Police said Muthusamy, a native of Dindigul district had married Latha, who was his housemaid, after his first wife Santha died of cancer in 1994. Latha was living with her daughter Geetha and sons — Muthu Kumar and Srinivasan — after she got separated from her first husband, police said. Muthusamy had purchased a land in Tiruneermalai before Latha died in 2010. Since the man had given away the property in his native place to the family of his two sisters, his stepchildren Geetha and Srinivasan had asked Muthusamy to give them his property in the city. It is said that Muthusamy and his stepchildren fell out over the issue and the septuagenarian began to stay alone in a house at Kamaraj Colony in Kodambakkam. Police said that Muthusamy’s niece, who was working in the government hospital at Tambaram, was taking care of him after the old man got hurt and was not able to walk.Police said on early Friday morning, when Muthusamy’s niece was away at work, Srinivasan, who had been staying in the house for the past five days nudging the old man to give him his property at Tiruneermalai, attacked him with a knife. Muthusamy, who sustained injuries on his neck, chest, hand and mouth, died while being taken to hospital. Man held for murdering sonIn another murder case registered at Adambakkam, Mohan (58), an attender with a government telecom company was arrested for allegedly killing his son.Police said Mohan’s son Ashwin Kumar (27), an auto driver near the St Thomas Mount Railway Station, threatened his father to get the shop adjoining their house vacant, for him to run a fish stall. Ashwin, in an inebriated state, had also threatened to murder his father if he did not vacate the shop. Early on Friday morning, a frustrated Mohan hit his sleeping son’s head with a crowbar and fled the scene. He was later arrested near the NGO Colony Bus Stand at Adambakkam.
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