Chennai: Vetriselvan, VCK member and personal secretary of party leader Thol Thirumavalavan, was hacked to death by a gang on Wednesday morning while he was on way to his office in Moovarasanpettai, near the southern suburb of Madipakkam. By the time the VCK chief started crying foul over the safety of his party cadres, the city police said the murder was a result of a family dispute over sharing ancestral property.
“We believe the murder was carried out by one of his cousins, Jagan, because of an existing property dispute,” the police said. The deceased was into real estate business as well.The murder took place when Vetriselvan was on way to his office in Raghavan Nagar, near Moovarasanpettai. He had stopped his car at a teashop around 8 am in Kannan Nagar.
After having had tea, when he was getting into his car, a gang, headed by Jagan, reached there in a car. The mercenaries jumped out of Jagan’s vehicle and attacked Vetriselvan with deadly weapons.
The VCK member ran for cover and went into a catering firm nearby. Arumugham, an employee of the catering firm, tried to protect him by downing the shutter.
But the gang managed to drag Vetriselvan from the shop and hacked him to death before escaping in their car, the police said. His body was later shifted to the Chromepet GH for post mortem. Immediately after the murder, traders in the locality downed their shutters.
