Murdered SSI’s body bore injuries on lips, contusion on eyebrow, eyelid

Special Sub-Inspector of Police Senthilkumar, 55, who was beaten to death by a gang of intoxicated youths on the night of Deepavali, had injuries on his lips, eyebrow and eyelid.According to the First Information Report, Senthilkumar had questioned the youths, identified as V. Maheshwaran, 24, T. Suryamoorthi, 24, N. Deepan Raj, 20, C. Bharat Piraneswar, 24, P. Akash, 24, and K. Gowtham, 25, all from Theni, and others, for disrupting free flow of traffic by parking their car in the middle of the road.As they did not heed to his advice to move away, the SSI called Theni police station and complained about the youths picking a quarrel with him. The SSI then started to take photographs of the gang’s activities.When the police team reached the spot, it found the youths engaged in a scuffle with the SSI. Upon seeing the police team, the accused fled the scene.The police then found the SSI lying on the road, unconscious and bleeding from his mouth, and rushed him to a private hospital, and from there to Government Theni Medical College Hospital.The SSI’s wife, Chandra, who is a professor in a private college, came to know about the fatal attack on her husband only when she made a call to his mobile phone to ask him whether he had his dinner.When she rushed to the hospital, she found her husband lying dead in the intensive care unit, the FIR said.The police have booked all the accused under various Sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023: 103 (1) (murder), 115 (2) (assault) and 121 (causing grievous hurt to a public servant to deter him from discharging his duty). Published - November 10, 2026 08:37 pm IST