Chennai City Police are unravelling, part by part, the gruesome murder of a family of three, including a two-year-old-child from Bihar, who had come here for work, by their own friends, also from Bihar.
On Monday (January 26, 2026), based on an alert by residents, the police found the body of Gaurav Kumar, a native of Bihar, dumped in a cloth sack near a two-wheeler showroom in Indira Nagar First Avenue of Adyar. On Tuesday (January 27, 2026) evening, they recovered the body of his child from the Buckingham Canal near the Indira Nagar Railway Station on Tuesday (January 27, 2026).
On Wednesday (January 28, 2026), the police arrested five persons, all from Bihar, for the crime. The arrested reportedly confessed to having murdered the family of Gaurav Kumar. Based on their confession, the police are still searching for the body of the wife in Buckingham Canal and Pallikaranai marshland.
A senior police officer said that after they found the body of Gaurav Kumar in the gunny bag, a case was filed, and subsequent investigation of the CCTV footage found that two persons who came on a two wheeler had dumped the sack there. Picking up on that lead, the police found that the vehicle belonged to a private security company and the murder was executed by five persons including the main accused B. Sikander, who were supposedly friends with Gaurav Kumar.
After being arrested, the five persons told the police that initially Gaurav Kumar along with his wife Munitha and child had come from Bihar to be employed in a private security company. However, Sikander got him a job as a security man at a polytechnic college in Taramani and the family staying with Sikander, the officer said.
Police said they suspected that on Monday (January 26, 2026) night, Sikander and his friends had murdered the entire family of Gaurav Kumar, Munitha and their child Birmani Kumar, when Sikander had tried to sexually assault Munitha, police said. Since Munitha’s body is yet to be recovered. Only after the recovery of her body and based on the post-mortem report, will it be possible to confirm the sexual assault angle, the police officer said.
The police have identified the four involved in the murder as B. Sikander, R. Narendrakumar, S. Ravindranath Tagore and U. Bikas, all from Bihar. The fifth person is being interrogated. The police are trying to find out if there are more suspects involved in the murder.
Published – January 28, 2026 10:29 pm IST
