Six arrested for murder of history-sheeter in Chennai

The Ambattur police in Chennai have arrested six persons on charges of murdering a 24-year-old history-sheeter over a previous enmity.

The Ambattur police in Chennai have arrested six persons on charges of murdering a 24-year-old history-sheeter over a previous enmity.

On Monday (December 30, 2024) evening, the police received information that a youngster was battling for his life after being brutally attacked by a gang at Muthamizh Nagar, Kallikuppam, Ambattur. The police arrived at the crime scene and shifted the injured man to Government Stanley Hospital for treatment.

The police then identified the man as ‘Lota’ Naveen, 24, who had criminal cases against him at Villivakkam police station. He died without responding to treatment on Tuesday (December 31, 2024).

During the course of the investigation, the Ambattur police found that at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, when Naveen was riding his two-wheeler towards his house in Tambaram, a group of men followed him on bikes at Kallikuppam, waylaid him, and attacked him with knives.

The police arrested six men, who have been identified as N. Ashok Kumar, 24, of Aminjikarai, R. Rajesh Kumar, 21, of Villivakkam, T. Albert, 23, of Redhills, A. Vijay Solomon, 21, of ICF, P. Iman, 20, of T.P. Chatram, and M. Vinodh Kumar, 21, of Pulianthope. They were remanded to judicial custody.

Naveen was allegedly murdered by the gang owing to a past rivalry over his involvement in two murders – of a person named Karunakaran, who was murdered in ICF in 2021, and that of Udayakumar, who was murdered in Villivakkam last year.