Police arrested all four accused within hours and upgraded the case from attempted murder to murder (Representative image)
CHENNAI: A 27-year-old autorickshaw driver died after four men attacked him with a knife near the U-turn on Ramakrishna Mutt Road in Raja Annamalaipuram on Tuesday evening. Preliminary investigations revealed that Sivakumar and Loganathan had a previous enmity following a physical altercation about three years ago. Abiramapuram police arrested all four suspects within hours and altered the case from attempted murder to murder. Based on a complaint lodged by his mother, Abiramapuram police registered a case. The arrested suspects were identified as Loganathan, Veera , Ajith and Ramu . Police suspected that Loganathan had carried out the attack with the help of his associates.
All the four arrested men were produced before a magistrate court and remanded in judicial custody on Wednesday.