BANGKOK – Police investigators sought an Indian man suspected of murdering a Thai woman in a Bangkok hotel before fleeing to Kanchanaburi Province in the western region bordering Myanmar. He was eventually arrested there.
Police officers from Talat Phlu Police Station, the Forensics Division officer, the forensic doctor from Siriraj Hospital, and volunteers from the Por Teck Tung Foundation received notification of the incident on the afternoon of April 16 and requested their participation in the investigation at a 5-story hotel near Talat Phlu Police Station.
The officers found the body of Ms. Sukanya, a 51-year-old Bangkok resident, inside the room on the second floor. The front and rear of her body sustained 31 stab wounds. The forensic authorities discovered the woman’s mobile phone nearby. The phone’s battery is running out. There was a blood-stained, sharp knife about a foot away.
The officer questioned the 28-year-old receptionist, who stated that Ms. Sukanya arrived to open the room where she has resided with an Indian man since April 7. The Thai woman visited this room every morning and returned in the evening. The Indian man has a motorcycle with a Nakhon Pathom licence plate for going outside.
Before the incident occurred around midday, she heard individuals shouting loudly at the crime scene. So she called to that room, and it appeared that the man answered before hanging up twice. Then the argument stopped, and she assumed everything was well. Until 1 p.m., she noticed the man walking down from the second floor, claiming to be on the phone. He moved comfortably to the front of the alley.
Investigators identified the suspect’s name as Mr. Yadav, a 32-year-old Indian national. Since March 27, Thai authorities have compelled him to leave the country. It is believed that he returned to Thailand through a natural route. He leased a motorcycle in Tha Maka District, Kanchanaburi Province, and rode it to Bangkok to stay with Miss Sukanya, who secretly rented the room where the incident occurred.
Miss Sukanya was a housewife. She married a man who works as a tile contractor. When she came out each day, she told her child that she was going to see her ailing grandma at a residence in the Chom Thong neighbourhood. In truth, she never went to Grandma’s place and instead met an Indian man.
Following the incident, Mr. Yadav hired a motorcycle rider in front of the Soi Wutthakat 14 gate to transport him to a van near the Pata Pinklao department store heading for Tha Maka District in Kanchanaburi province.
As a result, the investigating officers urged Pol. Maj. Gen. Nakarin Sukonthawit, chief of the Kanchanaburi Provincial Police Department, to help in the arrest of an Indian man accused of “killing another person,” as he was ready to leave the country at the Kanchanaburi border.
He originally admitted to killing Ms. Sukanya, with whom he had an affair, in rage over personal issues, but later denied it. He simply admitted that he was the person in the hotel’s CCTV video and did not know about the incident.
Mr. Yadav was interrogated at the Talad Phul Police Station at 4 p.m. on April 17, along with his lawyer and an Indian interpreter. According to the investigative team’s source, Yadav was seeking his 200,000 baht, which Miss Sukanya had borrowed.
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