Credit: நான் தூங்கCC BY-SA 3.0SourceUNSOLVEDListenVepery, Madras (now Chennai), Madras Presidency, British India · 1943
Tamil film journalist C. N. Lakshmikanthan was fatally stabbed in Madras in November 1944. Film stars M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar and N. S. Krishnan were convicted of his murder, but the Privy Council later ordered a retrial that acquitted them. The killing remains unsolved.
SOLVEDListenIndian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · 2019
Fathima Latheef, a 19-year-old first-year humanities student at IIT Madras, was found dead in her hostel room on 9 November 2019. Her family alleged she was driven to suicide by religious discrimination and harassment by named professors; investigations by Chennai police, the Central Crime Branch, and later the CBI found no evidence against the professors, with the CBI closing the case attributing her death to homesickness and psychological issues.
UNSOLVEDListenChennai Central railway station, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · 2014
Two low-intensity bombs exploded aboard the Bangalore–Guwahati Kaziranga Superfast Express at Chennai Central railway station on 1 May 2014, killing one female passenger and injuring at least fourteen others; the Students' Islamic Movement of India claimed responsibility.
The files run from 1943 to 2019. The 2010s hold the most, with 2 files. The oldest is Lakshmikanthan murder case, from 1943.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (2).
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