Chennai: A transsexual man who burnt alive his childhood classmate - a software engineer - in a gruesome manner was arrested and remanded to judicial custody, police said on Monday.
The suspect identified as Vetrimaran, a trans man who had changed his name from Pandi Maheswari, blindfolded, chained and burnt R Nandhini alive, under the pretext of surprising her on her birthday eve on Saturday, at Thalambur near Kelambakkam, Chennai’s southern suburb, they said.
The victim, a 25-year-old software engineer from Madurai, did not suspect his intentions, as Vetrimaran said he wanted to surprise Nandhini ahead of her birthday.