Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister on Sunday ordered the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the brutal murder of BJP state unit General Secretary V Ramesh. The order came even as the BJP has given a call for a statewide bandh on Monday.
The BJP leader was hacked to death by unidentified assailants near his house in Salem on Friday night, police said. The 52-year-old Ramesh alias Auditor Ramesh was attacked with sharp-edged weapons and he died on the spot, they said.
The identity of the assailants and the motive for the attack were under investigation, police had added. Ramesh is the second senior party functionary in Tamil Nadu to be murdered in the last nine months.
Earlier, BJP state medical wing secretary Dr V Aravind was killed in front of his clinic in Vellore by a gang in October, 2012.
Comments
0 comment