3 held for media producers murder

CHENNAI: The city police arrested three persons in connection with the murder of a 43-year-old former production department executive of a well-known media house in Vadapalani on Friday. Viji Kuttan (43) of Azhagiri Nagar main road, Vadapalani was working in the production department of a well-known media house and after it closed down, police said he later began doing freelance production work in other media houses. At times, he had borrowed money from others, police said.Police sources said Viji had borrowed `30,000 for his friend Melvin from one of his colleagues Raja. Since Melvin did not return the money, Raja’s brother-in-law Mahi alias Maheshwaran, along with two others - Rajesh and Bhupathy - would often threaten Viji with dire consequences if he did not get the money.On Friday night, Mahi had called Viji over the phone and had asked him to come out of his house. Police said after some time, Viji’s wife Rajarajeshwari also went out of the house and saw Mahi and the two others bind her husband’s hand and stab him in his abdomen, chest and hip. The three persons fled after she raised an alarm. Injured Viji was declared brought dead when he was taken to a hospital, police said. Following a complaint from Viji’s wife, police arrested the three persons.The three persons Mahi alias Maheshwaran, Rajesh and Bhupathy are at Myalpore railway station in connection with the murder of Viji Kuttan.Ex-employee Under Scanner for Hoax  Police on Saturday zeroed in on a telephone booth and are also on the lookout for a former employees of an IT company, whom they suspect to be the one who made a hoax bomb call to an IT complex at Ambattur.Police said the special police team that was formed to investigate the case of a hoax bomb call to a 16-storey building in Ambattur, had gathered the call details and traced the number to a telephone booth at Ambattur Estate.Police sources said that while investigating, they found out through an employee working in the booth that a few former employees had come to the coin phone booth on Friday morning. Police said they were gathering more information on the former employees.Following an anonymous call at 8.34 am, stating that a bomb had been planted inside the IT park, over 100 employees were evacuated.