3.During the course of the investigation, one of the accused Govindaraj surrendered and gave confession statement and the same was recorded, wherein, he had stated that since the deceased misbehaved with his wife in his absence, a wordy quarrel arise between him and the deceased and he along with other accused assaulted the deceased with a Wooden Reaper. He also confessed that he called his brotherin-law Elumalai and his friends Vijayaraja and Ramkumar to help him drop the victim near his house and that they have carried the victim for some distance and thereafter unable to carry him had left him near the house of Ganga and went away. Based on the confession a Wooden Reaper used by A1 Govindaraj to assault the deceased was recovered. Thereafter the body was sent for post mortem and during post mortem 11 external injuries found on the body of the deceased. However, forensic department had given a opinion that the deceased appear to have died due to the effect of Coronary artery disease. Based on the post-mortem report, on 07.12.2013 the investigation officer filed his final report by referring the case as “further action drop”. When notice was issued to the defacto complainant, she filed a protest application on 26.04.2013, stating that her son was murdered by Govindaraj, his brother Jayavelu, Ramkumar and Vijayaraja and one unknown accused. Further a detailed protest petition was filed with different version. It was also stated that the accused had assaulted the defacto complainant's son with wooden log (i.e., Mattapalagai in tamil) and dragged the body of her son and dropped him before the house of one Ganga.
