{"id":32192,"date":"2026-07-07T21:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/man-sleeping-outside-house-hacked-to-death-in-salem-district-chennai-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T21:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:36:37","slug":"man-sleeping-outside-house-hacked-to-death-in-salem-district-chennai-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/man-sleeping-outside-house-hacked-to-death-in-salem-district-chennai-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sleeping outside house hacked to death in Salem district | Chennai News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132242609,imgsize-318156,width-400,height-225,resizemode-75\/dead-body.jpg\" alt=\"Man sleeping outside house hacked to death in Salem district\" title=\"Representative image\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>SALEM: A DMK member was hacked to death while he was sleeping outside his house near Thalaivasal in Salem district in the early hours of Tuesday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>The murdered man has been identified as Manickam, 56, of Vellaiyur village. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Manickam\u2019s second wife, Indira, who came out of the house in the morning, saw him lying in a pool of blood and raised an alarm. Hearing her cries, Manickam\u2019s son from his first marriage, Udhay Prakash, rushed out from a nearby house and saw his father murdered. Neighbours gathered and informed the Veeraganur police.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Senior officers, including Salem district superintendent of police S Kuthalingam, Attur DSP Sathyaraj and a team from the Veeraganur police station inspected the crime scene and began investigations.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>The SP said Manickam had long-standing disputes with some relatives over a parcel of agricultural land, this could be the reason for his murder. \u201cForensic experts and sniffer dogs collected evidence,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>The Veeraganur police registered a case.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chennai\/man-sleeping-outside-house-hacked-to-death-in-salem-district\/articleshow\/132242616.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALEM: A DMK member was hacked to death while he was sleeping outside his house near Thalaivasal in Salem district in the early hours of Tuesday.The murdered man has been identified as Manickam, 56, of Vellaiyur village. Manickam\u2019s second wife, Indira, who came out of the house in the morning, saw him lying in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}