chennai the tiruvannamalai police on sunday arrested a 15yearold boy for the murder on july 1 of a 70yearold woman at the arunachaleshwar temple in the town the police scanning the footage from the cctv camera in the temple spotted the boy arul name changed in the company of the deceased pattammal and picked him up for questioningduring interrogation he confessed to the crime and said extreme poverty had forced him to kill pattammal to get her gold jewellery the police recovered the knife used by him to kill the woman as well as the 15 sovereigns of gold jewellery her had buried on the temple premisespattammal was found with her throat slit on the temple premises on july 1 and her gold jewellery missingaccording to the police arul of ayyakulam in tiruvannamalai had dropped out from school after class 9 and had been doing some menial works in the temple his family was struggling in poverty soon he became friendly with pattammal who used to visit the surrounding areas to pluck flowers for the temple he helped her pluck the flowers pattammal began taking him home and feeding him the police saidthen arul noticed the gold chains worn by pattammal and decided to snatch them on july 1 he tried to snatch the chains when pattammal raised an alarm scared of getting caught arul pulled out a knife slit her throat removed her jewellery and buried it inside the temple garden he then escaped to avoid anyone doubting his involvement he decided to remain in the town and recover the jewellery laterhowever the police scanning the cctv footage found him close to pattamal on many occasions and decided to pick him up for questioning