Businessman, Wife Found Murdered In Kottayam Home; Police Probe Personal Motive

A businessman and his wife were found murdered in their house in Thiruvathukkal in this district on Tuesday, police said. Both of them were found in a pool of blood in the morning, and police later confirmed it as a case of murder. The deceased were identified as Vijayakumar, who owns an auditorium and runs several other business establishments in the district, and his wife Meera, police said.

According to police sources, their maid, who came to the house for daily work in the morning, spotted the bodies of the couple inside the front area of the building.

Though she used to enter the house via the back door, it was found locked this morning, and so she entered the building through the front door, they said.