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Youth stabbed and burnt to death

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CHENNAI: A youth was stabbed and burnt to death by a gang following a heated argument in Kannagi Nagar, Thoraipakkam, on Sunday. Three persons involved in the murder were arrested.

According to Assistant Commissioner of Police (Thoraipakam) K.N. Murali, the charred body of E. Vinod (21) of Kannagi Nagar was found in a vacant house in the area on Monday.

A special team formed to investigate the case arrested V. Nithya alias Nithyanandam (23), A. Ezhilarasan (21) and K. Suresh alias Pallu Suresh (24) of Kannai Nagar in connection with the incident.

On interrogation, the trio confessed to having committed the murder along with a few others.

They said that while consuming liquor, Vinod made some remarks that provoked others leading to a heated argument. In the melee that followed, he was stabbed in his neck. The victim fell unconscious in a pool of blood.

The accused brought some petrol from motorcycles parked outside the house and set Vinod on fire.

“It was probably an attempt to disfigure his face. One of the accused, Nithya, was detained under the Goondas Act and released from the prison last week. Other suspects in the case have also come to the adverse notice of the police on many occasions,” Mr. Murali said.

Vinod, a welder, was living with his aunt Muthulakshmi at Kannagi Nagar. Of the total 15,656 houses constructed by the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board at Kannagi Nagar, about 1,618 houses were yet to be allotted. These empty houses were often misused by anti-social elements in the area, Mr. Murali said.

The body was shifted to Government Royapettah Hospital for post-mortem.

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