A history-sheeter N. Sadaiyandi (45) alias ‘Sevittu’ Sadaiyandi was hacked to death by an armed gang at Balarengapuram under Teppakulam police station limits on Friday night.
The police said Sadaiyandi, who was a loadman, was shocked when five bike-borne men surrounded him and started attacking with lethal weapons while he was sitting near a hospital at Balarengapuram.
Within a few minutes, they left him in a pool of blood and escaped on two motorbikes at around 8.45 p.m. The police said that he died on the spot.
Sadaiyandi, a close relative of former DMK Corporation zonal chairman, V.K. Gurusamy, had a history-sheet in Keeraithurai police station since 2014.
The police suspect that this murder could have been a fallout of simmering enmity between Gurusamy and another former Corporation zonal chairman Rajapandi (AIADMK).
Only a few months ago, Rajapandi’s son Thoppili Muniyasamy was reportedly kidnapped and murdered in June in which Gurusamy’s son V.K.G. Mani was held.