A 40-year-old man belonging to the Irula community was found dead in Kaveripakkam town in Ranipet on Sunday, December 24, 2023.
Police said the deceased, K. Saravanan, a labourer, had been living with his wife in Ramnagar near Kaveripakkam town on the Chennai - Bengaluru Highway (NH 44) for many years. On Saturday, December 23, he went for work as usual at a farmland, but did not return. Around 10 a.m on Sunday, a few farmers found the body of a naked male with injuries on it, near a stream adjacent to a sugarcane farmland in Ramnagar. They immediately alerted the Kaveripakkam police, who rushed to the spot and sent the body to the Government Taluk Hospital in Walajah town. A case was filed by the police.
