Swathi, belonging to a village in Hosur, had loved a person named Nandish, and when this news had come to her family, they opposed as the boy belonged to a different caste, and following this, the couple eloped and got married at a temple and later they also registered their wedding. They were living by setting up a wood shop, but Swathi's parents came to know their whereabouts sooner, and her father Srinivasan, her relatives Krishnan and Venkatesan together took a car and got to Swathi.
They acted to be good before the couple, and took them to Mandya, and later started threatening Nandhis to go away from Swathi, and as he refused, the trio attacked them, damaged her face, and her abdomen, and threw their bodies into a river, and later the police found the corpse bags, and arrested the trio.
It has been revealed that during investigation Swathi was initially worried and Srinivasan convinced her to come, and later when he threatened to separate them, as she did not agree, he had kicked his daughter and Srinivasan had tied them both and threw them into the river. Now three more people related to this gruesome murder are arrested, and the car driver Swaminathan alone is absconding.
