Chennai:
The Better Chennai Police seized 30 machetes from the residence of gangster P. Nagendran, who’s at present serving a life sentence in Vellore Central Jail.
Nagendran is the prime accused within the homicide of BSP Tamil Nadu unit president Okay. Armstrong. Nagendran’s son, Ashwathaman, is the third accused within the case.
In response to police sources, a raid was carried out at Nagendran’s residence on Wednesday, throughout which a number of lethal weapons, together with machetes, have been confiscated.
With this seizure, the whole variety of machetes recovered throughout the investigation into Armstrong’s homicide has risen to 51.
Okay. Armstrong was brutally hacked to demise on July 5, 2024, close to his under-construction home in Perambur.
A gang of eight males, led by Ponnai Balu – brother of the, now useless, gangster Arcot Suresh – claimed accountability for the homicide and surrendered to the police the identical night.
Balu confessed that the killing was an act of revenge for the homicide of his brother, Arcot Suresh, which he alleged had been deliberate and executed by Armstrong.
Nevertheless, a Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) led by Chennai Metropolis Police Commissioner M. Arun revealed that three separate gangs had colluded to hold out the homicide. Armstrong was finally killed by Ponnai Balu and his associates.
Additional investigations uncovered that P. Nagendran, who has been imprisoned for 26 years, and one other gangster, Sambhav Senthil, had conspired and financed the homicide.
Police stated Nagendran held a private grudge in opposition to Armstrong, accusing him of obstructing the political profession of his son, Ashwathaman, who’s a lawyer and a former office-bearer of the Tamil Nadu Youth Congress.
Ashwathaman, the third accused within the case, has since been dismissed from the Congress get together.
Sambhav Senthil, in the meantime, reportedly had disputes with Armstrong over actual property dealings.
A complete of 28 people have been arrested in reference to the case. Nevertheless, Sambhav Senthil and two of his shut associates, Krishna Kumar and Appu, stay at giant.
Senthil, labeled as an A+ prison document on the Washermenpet police station for his involvement in a number of homicide circumstances, has been on the run because the incident.
The case has additionally implicated members of a number of political events, together with the AIADMK, Tamil Maanila Congress, BJP, and Congress. The police have submitted a complete 5,000-page cost sheet to the Justice of the Peace court docket.
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