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A property dispute in Tiruvallur ended with one of the men involved being killed. It is alleged that aides of a DMK councillor Elango who was involved in the property dispute pelted a man named Balamurugan with stones ultimately killing him.
This gruesome act was caught on CCTV camera and seems to show the councillor also in the midst.
Supporters of a DMK councilor allegedly stoned a man to death. As per sources, a fight took place due to a property dispute, and a man named Balamurugan was killed after he was pelted with stones by aides of the DMK councilor.@sreeprapanch shares more details. pic.twitter.com/HtwKRbhMP9
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 12, 2023
The DMK councillor in question, Elango of Ward No. 17 in Ponneri, Tiruvallur district, was related to the person who was killed. Two women, Gayatri and Nandini, were involved in the dispute and are also related. Nandhini, the owner of an ancestral house, allegedly attacked her tenant who is also her niece, Gayathri, with a knife. Gayathri had earlier lodged a police complaint against Nandhini for evicting her from the house over some disagreement.
The property dispute escalated when Nandhini locked the house and refused to let Gayathri in. Nandhini was backed by local DMK councilor Elango and his associates, including Ernavur Hariharan. They allegedly assaulted Gayathri and her sister Keerthi outside the house. Gayathri’s relatives Robert and Balamurugan came to her rescue and helped her file a police complaint, as reported by Polimer News.
Balamurugan had helped his friend Gayathri file a complaint with the Ponneri police against DMK councillor Elango and his aides for threatening her over her ancestral property. The police had reportedly dismissed the complaint as a civil matter and ignored the CCTV footage submitted by Gayathri. Enraged by this, Elango and his aides Vinod Kumar, Rajkiran, and Dilip Kumar confronted Balamurugan and his friend Robert and pelted stones at them. Robert managed to escape with injuries but Balamurugan succumbed to his wounds. While the police have arrested the aides Vinod Kumar and Rajkiran, Dilip Kumar is still at large.
Another such “family dispute” occurred in February this year, when Army Jawan Lance Naik M Prabhu was killed by another DMK councillor Chinnaswamy after an argument at Velampatti near Pochampally because Prabhu washed clothes near the panchayat water tank.
While Chinnaswamy was arrested and a case filed against him for murder, the DMK councillor Elango involved in this killing is still free and no action has been taken yet.
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