Officials, with the help of private contractors, dug up the garden at the bungalow of the 84-year-old granite baron on Avvai Shanmugam Salai. The searches followed a confession by one of Veeramani's drivers, Bala, that one of the girls who died during the sexual assault was buried in the. Chennai Police digs granite baron R. Veeramani's Royapettah backyard after driver alleges burial of children; SIT probe under POCSO Act continues.