Bloody game in one-sided love: Changed gender for first friend, killed for rejecting marriage proposal

Chennai Police on Monday arrested a transsexual man for brutally murdering his childhood classmate. A transman burnt his childhood classmate R Nandini to death on the pretext of surprising her on her birthday. Police said the accused person was identified as Vetrimaran, who is a trans man. She married her childhood classmate R Nandini, who was a software engineer by profession. He was burnt alive in a gruesome manner.

Police revealed that the accused person had changed his gender. Earlier she was a girl. After which she got her gender changed. The name of the first accused person was Pandi Maheshwari, which he changed to Vetrimaran. Police said that the accused transman had changed his gender to marry Pandi Maheshwari. But Pandi Maheshwari later refused to marry. After which, intending to take revenge, the transman killed him by burning him alive as part of a conspiracy on the occasion of his birthday.

Chennai Police has arrested the accused transman and sent him to judicial custody. The transman blindfolded R Nandini on the pretext of surprising her on the eve of her birthday on Saturday in Thalambur near Kelambakkam, Chennai, police said. After this, he was tied with chains and burnt alive.

25-year-old R Nandini was a software engineer by profession and worked in a software company in Madurai. R Nandini did not doubt the intentions of transman Vetrimaran. Before carrying out the incident, Vetrimaaran said he wanted to surprise Nandini before her birthday. Nandini was staying here at her relative's house.

Investigation revealed that 26-year-old Pandi Maheshwari used to study with Nandini in a school in Madurai before undergoing gender change. Even after changing her name from Maheshwari to Vetrimaran, Nandini continued their friendship on humanitarian grounds. Police said both of them used to work in the same company.