coimbatore a 19yearold polytechnic college student was arrested on friday for murdering a farmer from sowripalayam who had allegedly had an affair with the students mother the crime was committed on august 4 and the victims body was buried in a sugarcane field near ondipudur the accused has been identified as i velladurai alias raja from pattanam itteri near ondipudur he is a native of muthuthevanpatti in theni district he was doing his final year diploma in computer science at rvs polytechnic college near sulur velladurai had murdered r karthikeyan alias raja 38 with a sickle and buried his body in a sugarcane field which belonged to thirunavukkarasu a farmer police said the deceased karthikeyan had previous enmity with thirunavukkarasu due to a land dispute velladurai was aware of their troubled relationship and buried karthikeyans body at thirunavukkarasus farm land hoping to divert the police according to a source maheswari 42 and her husband iyyappan 49 a construction worker had a son velladurai and daughter sivaranjani 18 the family moved to coimbatore from muthuthevanpatti 12 years ago the couple worked as daily wage labourers initially three and a half years ago they moved to an agricultural farm which belonged to karthikeyan while the family lived there maheswari was involved in farm work karthikeyan and maheswari began an extramarital affair six months ago iyyappan had walked out on his wife in a heated dispute taking his daughter to live with him in dindigul velladurai tried to persuade his mother to break the relationship but in vain frustrated velladurai planned to kill karthikeyan on august 4 velladurai told his mother he was going to see a movie and left home at 9 pm at around 10 pm he went to karthikeyans farm and dug a pit at 11 pm karthikeyan who was with maheswari returned home on his motorcycle when velladurai saw karthikeyan he attacked him with a sickle the victim fell off his bike velladurai continued to hack him until he was dead he then buried the deceased in the pit he had dug taking the gold bracelet and ring he was wearing he parked karthikeyans bike near thirunavukkarasus house and returned home karthikeyans family conducted a search for him but in vain on 7 august his mother sathyabhama 66 spotted a decomposed toe protruding out of the earth on being notified the singanallur police exhumed the body and registered a case velladuari was present at the crime scene when the police exhumed the body three special teams were formed to nab the culprits according to police karthikeyan had many enemies and it was difficult to ascertain who had killed him a woman from masakkalipalayam had seen velladurai parking the motorcycle near thirunavukkarasus residence another person saw him at the farm around 10 pm on the day of the murder when police took velladurai in their custody to interrogate him he confessed to the crime initially velladurais behavior did not raise any suspicions later the investigation clearly indicated that velladurai was