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Visha Oosi case

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Visha Oosi Case (lit. meaning case of toxic injection) is a series of murders that took place between 1970 and 1972 in Chennai, India. The victims were mostly people carrying higher amount of cash and jewellery.[1][2] The perpetrators would pose as customs officials and took the victims away in a car.[3] In the car, they would inject them with large amounts of Pethidine to kill them, and they discarded the bodies along the Andhra Pradesh-Tamil Nadu border.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Narayanan, Vivek (30 April 2016). "The toxic trail of syringe murders in Chennai" – via www.thehindu.com.
  2. ^ "The toxic trail of syringe murders in Chennai - News Eleven". Archived from the original on 10 August 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  3. ^ "The Pethidine killers of the 1970s". The New Indian Express. 15 May 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  4. ^ Kumar, S. Vijay (31 December 2023). "When the Pethidine killers struck fear in people across Tamil Nadu". The Hindu. Retrieved 25 October 2024.