TN special SI murder case: Main accused Manikandan shot dead in encounter
COIMBATORE: A Special Sub Inspector (SSI) of police attached to the Gudimangalam police station near Udumalpet in Tirupur district was hacked to death by a father and his two sons late Tuesday night.
The police officer went to farmland belonging to Madathukulam constituency AIADMK MLA C Mahendran after receiving a distress call from the police control room that the father and two sons were engaged in a fight. When the police officer tried to pacify them, they hacked him to death.
While police secured the father, Moorthy, and a Thangandi, the main accused, Manikandan, went absconding. Police secured Manikandan late Wednesday night.
While police took him to the crime spot for investigation, when they reached near Uppar Stream near Chikkanoor in Gudimangalam, he hacked the Sub Inspector Saravana Kumar with a sickle in his hand and tried to escape before police shot him dead.
The injured police officer, Saravanakumar, was admitted to Udumalpet Govt Hospital for treatment.
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