An eerie silence envelops the dupleix house, ‘Mahalakshmi’, at 19, Dwaraka Colony in Mylapore on Saturday morning, so eerie that it belies the rather tumultuous events that this house stood witness to recently. Only last week did the house witness betrayal, assault and murder, all at once, in a mystery plot that rivalled Arvind Adiga’s award-winning novel The White Tiger. The gruesome double murder of Mylapore made the headlines in the city, and while the speedy cracking of the case was impressive, the case threw up concerns of the elderly living alone in the city.
