Chennai: A 30-year-old man was found dead with head and facial injuries near the railway tracks at Aravindan Nagar in Kancheepuram on Monday morning.
People herding goats in the area spotted the body lying in a pool of blood in Ward 21 of Kancheepuram Municipal Corporation and alerted the police. Preliminary inquiries revealed that Parthiban was arrested in 2022 for murdering his colleague, Elumalai, at a biryani shop. He was identified as Parthiban of Thirukkalimedu. Railway police and Kancheepuram Taluk police suspected that he was murdered following a dispute while consuming alcohol with friends. He subsequently came out on bail. Police suspected that Parthiban had consumed alcohol with friends near the railway tracks on Diwali . A dispute might have broken out during the gathering, following which he was attacked with stones and liquor bottles. Further investigations are on.
Police have registered a case and launched a hunt for the accomplices with whom he had consumed liquor on Sunday night.