Tirunelveli (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 30 : Tirunelveli Police have arrested the accused of the murder of a Scheduled Caste youth in the district under the Goondas Act, said the police.
Surjith, 23, was arrested for the murder of Kavin Selvaganesh, 27, an IT employee from Arumugamangalam near Eral in Thoothukudi district.
Surjith's parents, Saravanan and Krishnaveni, both Sub-Inspectors attached to the Armed Police, have been placed under suspension after their names figured in the murder.
According to police sources, victim C. Kavin Selvaganesh (27) from Arumugamangalam in Thoothukudi district, had reportedly expressed romantic interest in the sister of the accused, Surjith.
Kavin, who belonged to a Scheduled Caste (SC) community, worked for a Chennai-based IT company, while the woman, a Siddha practitioner employed at a private clinic in Palayamkottai, belongs to a Most Backward Class (MBC) community.
Kavin had visited Arumugamangalam to take his grandfather to the clinic where the woman worked.
Upon learning that Kavin was at the clinic, Surjith arrived and asked him to accompany him for conciliation talks.
Shortly afterwards, the assailant brutally hacked Kavin to death with a concealed machete before fleeing the scene. Upon receiving the information, Palayamkottai police rushed to the spot, recovered Kavin's body, and sent it to Palayamkottai Government Hospital for postmortem. Inspector Kasi Pandian and his team secured CCTV footage from the area and launched an investigation.