Councillor hacked to death

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A panchayat councillor of Sriperumbudur was killed after country-made bombs were hurled at his car on Monday.

This is the third such incident in a week where panchayat councillors have been targetted in Kanchipuram district.

P.P.G. Kumaran, the councillor, died in a hospital where he was admitted with two other associates.
His wife Prasidha was elected unopposed as chief of Pillaipakkam panchayat in the last civic body elections.

Preliminary investigations show that his rivals in real estate business had hired goons from Madurai to kill him.

“Pravin Kumar from Madurai was caught by people immediately after the incident in Pattunoolchatram on the Sriperumbadur – Padappai Road.

He confessed Vairavan of Kundrathur had hired his gang from Madurai,” police sources said.

“We heard a blast at around 11 am. When we came out of our house, we saw people from one vehicle attacking those in another vehicle, which had slipped off the road,” one of the eyewitnesses said.

The gang smashed windshields of the councillor’s car with iron roads and sickles and dragged out Kumaran minutes before hacking him.

The gang also attacked his driver Mathiyazhgan. The hit-men then got into their car and sped towards Tambaram, sources said.

The hit men had earlier hurled a bomb at another car driven by Kumaran’s manager Sankar thinking it to be the councillor’s.

Once they found that they were wrong, they attacked the second vehicle.
“Usually Kumaran keeps changing his vehicle, fearing rival’s attack,” police said.

Only on September 25, Mannivakkam panchayat president Purushothaman was hacked to death by a gang.

On Saturday, the Kanchipuram police had arrested four persons with sickles and country-made bombs near Vandalur.They were planning to abduct children of Kumili panchayat chief Johnson.