The husband of a woman panchayat president and his relatives chopped a part of the left hand of an 18-year-old construction worker on Tuesday evening for sitting cross-legged in front of their house near Tiruchuli the previous day.
The police have booked M. Krishnan, 45, husband of Devi, president of the Alagapuri panchayat in the Narikudi union; his brother M. Kannan; and another relative Kumar.
“Krishnan picked a quarrel with R. Karthik for sitting cross-legged in front of his house at Siruvanur on Monday,” Tiruchuli DSP N. Perumal Ramanujam said.
The youth had been to his friend’s house, next door to Krishnan, earlier on Tuesday when they quarrelled again. Wishing to get away from the village, Karthik boarded a bus to Coimbatore in the evening. But Kannan and Kumar followed him on a two-wheeler and intercepted the bus.
They pulled him out of the bus between Sirvanur and Arunagiri, attacked him with a machete and chopped the lower part of the left hand.