The Criminal Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CBCID) is questioning a man listed in police records as a rowdy in connection with the disappearance of a seven-year-old girl from Alampoondi Nadupattu village near Senji in Villupuram district, according to a report by Dinamalar.
A CBCID team led by Deputy Superintendent of Police Geetha has been conducting the investigation in the area. Police have also completed two rounds of questioning with the girl’s parents, during which investigators said they received information relevant to the case.
According to the officials quoted in the report, the girl’s father had told a woman that gold jewellery weighing about two-and-a-half sovereigns and Rs 60,000 were kept at the family’s house in the area where cattle were grazed. The woman allegedly passed the information to Rajadurai, a man from nearby Sathyamangalam who is listed in police records as a rowdy, the officials said.
Investigators received information that Rajadurai had been watching the girl’s house, the CBCID officials said. On that basis, police are questioning him. The report does not state that he has been arrested or that investigators have established his involvement in the child’s disappearance.
Police are also searching for an astrologer from Thanjavur district who had reportedly stayed for more than 15 days at a Shiva temple in the area. According to the officials quoted by Dinamalar, the astrologer left the area on the day the girl disappeared. The child had reportedly visited the temple alone on earlier occasions, and investigators are examining whether the astrologer may have seen her.
The astrologer’s mobile phone has reportedly been switched off, which investigators described as a reason for suspicion. Police are trying to trace him and establish his movements in relation to the disappearance. The available report does not provide details of the date on which the child went missing, the precise circumstances of her disappearance, or whether any criminal case has been registered against the persons being questioned.
The investigation illustrates the role of local information, witness accounts and movement tracing in missing-child cases, particularly in rural settlements where homes, grazing areas and places of worship may be closely connected. However, the leads mentioned by police remain investigative lines rather than confirmed findings. The CBCID inquiry is continuing under DSP Geetha, with efforts focused on questioning the listed suspect and locating the astrologer.
