Suspected of phone theft, boy beaten to death

Chennai | Monday | 24th September, 2018

Summary:

Following this, Muniandi, Palanisamy, Muniappan, Selvakumar and Muniappan went to Balasubramani’s house on Saturday evening, tied him up to a pillar and asked him about the cellphone. Police said a few people from the village claimed to have seen Balasubramani using Muniandi’s cellphone and told him so. His father died a year ago and he was staying with his mother Ilanjiyam and sister Nandhini.A few days ago, Muniandi lost his cellphone, and Palanisamy, also from Allali Goundanur village, allegedly lost Rs 3,000. As they did not find his answers convincing, they thrashed him with a log.Ilanjiam and Nandhini were not at the house when this happened. He swooned and died later.”Police formed a separate team and nabbed the five accused..