A migrant labourer was beaten to death at Konavaikalpalayam near Podanur by local workers here on Wednesday night. It all started when a group of migrant workers allegedly teased a local who then informed his friends and assaulted the victim. The city police arrested four accused and formed a special team to arrest one more absconding accused.
The deceased has been identified as C Ramesh Chandra Bhera, 24 from Kalishahi Village in Odisha state. He was working at A-Z decorators firm at Konavaikalpalayam. Police said, the victim and his friend A Lakshmanan Bhera from Kalishahi Village, were staying in a room located near an agricultural field at Konavaikalpalayam. Ten more migrant workers from Bihar were staying in other rooms.
On Tuesday evening, a temple festival was taking place Konavaikalpalayam village. N Manoj, 23 and his friends had gone to the agricultural field to load tomatoes onto a goods carrier. The ten Bihari migrant labourers began teasing Manoj and his friends in Hindi.
Manoj told his friends R Manikandan, 25, P Krishnamurthy, 29, T Harikrishnan, 25 and Selvaraj, all hailing from Konavaikalpalayam, about the incident. After they consumed liquor, they decided to attack the labourers from Bihar. The five member gang went to their residence but it was locked.
They mistook Ramesh Chandra Behera to be one of the attackers and assaulted him on his head with cricket bats and wooden logs early Wednesday morning. The victim was rushed to Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) where he died without responding to the treatment on Thursday morning.
Podanur police inspector N Premanand has altered the case to 302 (murder) from 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code and arrested four accused. All of them were lodged at Coimbatore central prison. One more accused, Selvaraj, is still absconding.
The deceased has been identified as C Ramesh Chandra Bhera, 24 from Kalishahi Village in Odisha state. He was working at A-Z decorators firm at Konavaikalpalayam. Police said, the victim and his friend A Lakshmanan Bhera from Kalishahi Village, were staying in a room located near an agricultural field at Konavaikalpalayam. Ten more migrant workers from Bihar were staying in other rooms.
On Tuesday evening, a temple festival was taking place Konavaikalpalayam village. N Manoj, 23 and his friends had gone to the agricultural field to load tomatoes onto a goods carrier. The ten Bihari migrant labourers began teasing Manoj and his friends in Hindi.
Manoj told his friends R Manikandan, 25, P Krishnamurthy, 29, T Harikrishnan, 25 and Selvaraj, all hailing from Konavaikalpalayam, about the incident. After they consumed liquor, they decided to attack the labourers from Bihar. The five member gang went to their residence but it was locked.
They mistook Ramesh Chandra Behera to be one of the attackers and assaulted him on his head with cricket bats and wooden logs early Wednesday morning. The victim was rushed to Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) where he died without responding to the treatment on Thursday morning.
Podanur police inspector N Premanand has altered the case to 302 (murder) from 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code and arrested four accused. All of them were lodged at Coimbatore central prison. One more accused, Selvaraj, is still absconding.