Drunken brawl claims one life, murderer held

Coimbatore: A 30-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for murdering a construction worker during a drunken brawl near Thadagam on the outskirts of the city.
According to police, passers-by had spotted the body of a man in his 50s with stab injuries close to Somaiyanur bus stop near Thadagam on Wednesday morning and alerted them.
The Thadagam police subsequently recovered the body, which was sent to hospital for postmortem.
During preliminary investigation, police identified the deceased as 55-year-old Senthilkumar, a construction labour. “We found Senthilkumar was stabbed by Chinnadurai, a resident of Thadagam, during a brawl that they picked up while consuming liquor on Tuesday night. The entire act was recorded on the CCTV camera installed in the locality,” a police officer said.
Police nabbed Chinnadurai from Kalappanaickenpalayam later in the day and registered a case against him under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code. Chinnadurai was produced before a judicial magistrate, who remanded him in judicial custody.