chennai a 75yearold man was found poisoned and 16 sovereigns gold and 35 lakh found missing from his house at kancheepuram on thursday night kancheepuram taluk police arrested his nephew on the charges of murderpolice identified the arrested as v baskar alias basha 27 preliminary investigations revealed that baskar needed money for his engagement and decided to burgle his uncle govindans house the victims son who initially believed govindan died of natural cause later found jewellery missing and lodged a police complainton thursday night bhaskar had gone to govindans house with a liquor bottle he had spiked it with an insecticide and poured the drink for govindan later when govindan struggled for life he smothered him with a pillow he then took the keys of the locker and fled with the valuablesgovindans son krishnan who works as a construction employee came home on friday morning and found his father dead assumed govindan died of natural causes only when he went to take cash for the funeral expenses he found that house was burgled