The nationwide police chief expects Indian authorities will quickly arrest two Indian suspects within the homicide of a Myanmar job seeker whose physique was dismembered and hidden in a freezer in Bangkok’s Bang Khunthian district over the weekend.

Pol Gen Torsak Sukvimol, commissioner-general of the Royal Thai Police, stated on Monday that police had requested the arrest of the Indian suspects through the Indian embassy in Thailand and the 2 international locations had a mutual extradition treaty.

Police decided that each suspects left the nation earlier than the physique of the Myanmar man was found on Sunday.

One of the suspects was a job dealer who departed Thailand for Chennai on Saturday, the nationwide police chief stated.

Police had been rigorously checking current arrivals utilizing the federal government’s visa-free programme for some international locations.

Since the programme started, Indians have fashioned the largest group of tourists. Police had been in search of influential guests who is likely to be concerned in human trafficking, cash laundering and expertise crime which had been extreme issues in India, Pol Gen Torsak stated.

Meanwhile, Pol Lt Col Chakree Ditjai, interrogative inspector on the Tha Kham police station, stated one of many homicide suspects within the case was the 23-year-old Indian man, recognized as Sundaravel Pragadeesh Kumar, who ran a job placement company.

According to witnesses, six Myanmar males reached the Thai border on Jan 11. An Indian introduced them from the border on Jan 12 they usually arrived on the suspect’s job placement firm at Sakae Ngam 35/3 Road on Jan 14. The shophouse there was the scene of the crime.

Five of the Myanmar migrants obtained jobs and needed to pay 7,000 baht every for the location, however the sufferer was saved on the shophouse.

The two Indian males left the shophouse in a automotive at 6pm on Jan 19. They returned an hour later with a freezer. Both left the place once more at 9pm the identical day.

Pol Col Lertsak Khiansap, chief of the Thakham police station, stated the Indian man’s job placement company was registered and he had stayed within the nation for years.

Sundaravel Pragadeesh Kumar, a 23-year-old Indian nationwide who owns a recruitment firm, has been named as a homicide suspect. (TV display seize)