Armstrong, BSP’s TN unit chief, murdered | India News

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu state unit president of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Armstrong was hacked to death by a six-member gang while he was chatting with his friends and supporters near his house in a crowded locality at Sembiam near Perambur late on Friday evening.
Police said that at around 7pm, the gang came on three bikes and pounced on Armstrong wielding deadly weapons.Before his men could respond and come to his rescue, the gang hacked him brutally and escaped, leaving him in the pool of blood.
Armstrong’s friends, who were chatting with him, ran away after the gang members threatened them with the machetes and sickles. On hearing his cries, Armstrong’s family members came rushing, only to see him lying with severe injuries on his head and neck.
They rushed him to a corporate hospital on Greams Road in Thousand Lights, where the doctors examined and declared him dead.
On information, Pulianthope deputy commissioner of Police I Eswaran and Assistant Commissioner of police Praveen Kumar visited the murder scene. A special team headed by the Sembium inspector of police Chiranjeevi has been assigned to track the suspects involved in the murder.
The whole area has been brought under a security blanket to prevent revenge attacks or riots.
An advocate by profession, Armstrong won as an independent in a city ward in the 2006 local body elections. In 2007 he was made the state unit of the BSP. Armstrong was championing the cause of the Dalits and the marginalised. He had a big following among lawyers in Chennai and the neighbouring districts.