One held in connection with 2007 missing girl case

Acting on the clue of multiple cell phone conversation, police today nabbed a man, who reportedly murdered and buried a teenage girl near Sulur on the outskirts, some seven years ago.
Based on a habeas corpus plea by the father of the 15-year-old girl, a resident of Jameen Uthukuli near Pollachi in the district, the Madras High Court some months ago had ordered the police to expedite the case and solve the mystery.
A special police team stumbled upon the cell phone of the tenth standard girl and checked the last call she made before she went missing in April 2007, police said.

Based on the details of the six calls the girl made to a particular person, police nabbed one Thangaraj, running a computer training centre at Sulur, where the girl was also undergoing training while staying at the house of her paternal uncle during school vacation.
Thangaraj told police that he and the girl were in love and he had called the girl to his place after she came to know that his parents had fixed his marriage with some other woman, police said.
Further interrogation revealed that Thangaraj, with the help of his friend Rajkumar, had strangulated the girl and buried her body at Pattanam on the outskrits.

Police have requisitioned an earthmover and started the process of exhuming the body, police said.