CHENNAI: A former panchayat president, of the DMK, was hacked to death by a six-member armed gang near his residence in Vallam village near Chengalpattu in Kancheepuram district on Saturday. The victim, Wilson Samraj alias Kalaiarasan (55), was earlier arrested in connection with murder of two DMDK functionaries in the same village and his murder could be an act of revenge.
Wilson was the DMK candidate in Vallam panchayat for the 2016 october local body polls which has been quashed by the High Court.