Overview

• Balakrishnan was speaking with friends near Sanarpatti in Dindigul district when a group of motorbike riders armed with machetes surrounded and fatally hacked him in full public view.
• Sanarpatti Police recovered his body within minutes and sent it to the Dindigul District Government Hospital for a thorough post-mortem examination.
• Investigators suspect a financial dispute as the motive and have launched a detailed inquiry to identify and apprehend those involved in the attack.
• This killing is the latest in a series of machete assaults on political and community figures across southern India this month.
• Parallel investigations by Koppal and Tiruppur police teams continue to pursue suspects linked to earlier targeted homicides, including a June bakery slaying and the Tiruppur town president’s murder.