Cops nab 7 for chasing and hacking taxi driver to death

CHENNAI: City police solved a murder case on Monday and arrested seven accused involved in the brutal killing of a car driver in Pondy Bazaar a few days ago. Police recovered sickles and knives that were used for the murder. The weapns were concealed in the house of one of the accused, police said.
On the night of Thursday last week, the gang had chased and murdered Athavan, a resident of Thiruvallurvar quarters in Teynampet.Athavan was sitting in a temple in Teynampet when the gang accosted him. He ran for his life, reached Giriappa Road in T Nagar, spotted a house whose doors were open and rushed in. He was finally cornered on the second floor of the building and hacked to death.
Special police teams nabbed the culprits from a hideout in Nungambakkam and took them for questioning. Police revealed the names of the arrested as Karthik, Jai alias Jai Kumar, Madhan, Suman, Sankar, Venkatesan and Rajan. The accused admitted to having committed the murder. Initial inquiries revealed that Athavan and his brother Saravanan had assualted Kuttiappa alias Kumaravelu in 2007 owing to previous enmity. It was to take revenge for that assault that the seven accused attacked Athavan.
Police commissioner K Radhakrishnan commended the special team that nabbed the accused.
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