Three individuals were arrested for beating a senior police officer to death in Tamil Nadu’s Theni district, police said on Monday.
“We have arrested three of them right now. Theni sub-division police also registered a case against the three. Investigations revealed that the 56-year-old Senthilkumar, a Theni district superintendent of police, was returning home when he saw the three bursting firecrackers in the middle of the road at Samadharampuram on Sunday night.
I cannot share any other details in this matter,” an officer told HT. A scuffle then broke out during which one of them allegedly hit the officer hard with a rod following which the officer collapsed, police said. Meanwhile, superintendent of police KS Praveen Gowtham visited the site on Monday and conducted an inquiry into the incident.
Theni is about 600km south of Chennai. The death of the officer in Theni is one of several crimes that occurred across various districts on Sunday over the last 24 hours.
