Kaithady is in the Jaffna district along the A9 road. It is 10 kilomters from Jaffna town. During the month of June 2006, workers who were mining gravel from the area discovered a human corpse in the open space in Kaithady not far from the A9 road. They reported it to the Grama Sevakar (GS) Ratnaraj who coordinated the exhumation of the area with the police and the SLMM after obtaining orders from the Chavakachcheri judge. Over three days of digging four bodies were discovered including that of a Hindu priest who went missing after he left his temple following a pooja. The items he had used for his pooja was also found with his body.
Ratnaraja, the GS, was later shot by persons on motorbike and he escaped with injuries.
