A day after the gruesome murder of four members of a family for objecting to some men drinking liquor on their property, a massive protest demanding the assailants’ arrest broke out at Palladam town in Tiruppur district on Monday. The victims were hacked to death in Kallakinaru village.
The police said one of the assailants had been arrested while two others were on the run. The protesters led by the BJP and its fraternal outfits (as one of the victims was allegedly a BJP member) raised slogans describing the Tamil Nadu government as inefficient in maintaining law and order and demanded that all the Tasmac liquor outlets be closed to curb alcoholism, which they blamed for the occurrence of such grave crimes.
