The arrested persons confessed that they had planned to kill Tamil Nadu Bahujan Samaj Party chief Armstrong on the birthday or memorial day of famous rowdy Arkadu Suresh. The police had said that Armstrong was killed to avenge the murder of Arkadu Suresh.
Bahujan Samad Party state president Armstrong was with his supporters near his house in Chennai’s Perambur area when a mob surrounded him on a two-wheeler and hacked him to death with a scythe. In this situation, Armstrong fell down.
The gang then fled. Armstrong was rushed to Apollo Hospital. The doctors said that he had already died there. The police rushed to the spot and took his body to the Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital in an ambulance.
His body has been kept there since midnight. In this situation, 5 special forces have been formed to catch the killers. The CCTV camera footage was scrutinized and the killers were seen running away from the spot with machete in hand.
According to the preliminary investigation by the police, on August 27 last year, a famous rowdy named Arkadu Suresh was murdered. It is said that Armstrong acted after this incident. As a result, it seems that AV killed Suresh’s brother mercenary in Arcot.
At this stage, 8 people including Ponnai Balu, Tiruvenkadam, Tirumalai, Selvaraj, Manivannan, Santhosh, Arul surrendered at the Chennai Anna Nagar Police Station as they were involved in the murder.
They are being interrogated in a secret location. They said in the inquiry that they had planned to kill Armstrong either on August 27, when Arcot Suresh was killed, or on July 5, his birthday.
Accordingly, we completed our project on Arkadu Suresh’s birthday. They also said that Ponnaiyan and others performed pooja by placing Armstrong’s blood-stained sickle in front of Arkadu Suresh’s picture.
Also, Suresh’s brother Ponnai Balu of Arcot said that instead of killing his brother, Armstrong had threatened his father and great-grandfather, so Anji was now suffering without support as his wife had left him, and for this reason, he killed Armstrong.
Ponnai Balu also said that while he was already in jail for this murder, he got in touch with some mercenaries and got the job done with them. According to what they are saying, they have planned to kill Arkadu Suresh before his memorial day. As it was Arkadu Suresh’s birthday yesterday, it came to light that Armstrong had to be killed somehow yesterday after two days of continuous monitoring.
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