Chennai, March 9 -- In a shocking incident, an elderly man was killed and his wife was allegedly sexually assaulted by an unidentifed man in their farm house at Singarapettai village in Uthangarai Taluk in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu in the intervening hours of Sunday-Monday.
Police sources said the motive behind the murder was being ascertained and search operations are on to identify and nab the suspect.
According to police, the elderly couple were living alone in the farmhouse in the area when the unidentified person allegedly attacked them during the night.
As the locals suspected something amiss has happened, they alerted the police who rushed to the spot and found the 70-year-old man lying in a pool of blood with severe inju...