Brutal Double murder in Brahim Religious Instituition - Ahobila Mutt

Monday, July 26th, 2010
Chennai: A 64-year-old woman was today allegedly attacked and said to be killed by another man at the Ahobila Mutt in suburban Selaiyur Tamilnadu.
Kanagavalli  w/o vasuddevan, a Mutt inmate, was cleaning the premises in the wee hours when she noticed a man hiding in a room nearby.She then raised an alarm.
Listening to the cries for help, Bashyam, secretary to the jeer, rushed to the quarters and noticed a man attacking Kanagavalli with a knife and threw her into a nearby well. He then tried to flee, they said.
But Assistant Commissioner of Police, Selaiyur Range, told reporters that the man caught hold of Kanagavalli and jumped into the well along with her. The well measured around four feet in diameter.

He is reported to have pushed Kanagavalli's face into the water, when she drowned.

Bashyam called out for help and a group of Mutt staff and devotees rushed to the well. They first managed to pull out the man out of the well. He  threatened them with a knife. However, he was overpowered and tied up with a rope and was beaten up severely by angry Brahmin inmates. The man succumbed to his injuries later died at  a hospital, they said, adding the woman died at the mutt itself.

The man has been identified as Satyaraj (35) from Madurantakam (in Tamil Nadu).

A case has been registered.
Information reached Selaiyur police station and when they reached the spot, the man was struggling for life. He was taken to a local clinic and later shifted to a private hospital in Pallikaranai, where he died. Kanagavalli's body was taken to Tambaram Taluk Government Hospital at Chromepet, where the man's body too was shifted from the private hospital.
Ahobila mutt murder

The exact cause of the man's death could be ascertained only after post-mortem, police said,

Ahobila Mutt (also called Ahobila Matam) is a Sri Vaishnava religious institution established 600 years ago at Ahobilam by Srimad Athivan Satakopan the first Jeeyar (pontiff).

The jeer, Sri Narayana Yathindra Mahadesikan, has been camping at the Mutt to take part in festivities organised every year during the Tamil month of ‘aadi.' This is a branch of the famed, centuries-old Ahobila Mutt.

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