: A four member knife weilding gang was arrested here today for allegedly planning to kill a person at nearby Thangachimadam to avenge the murder of their friend in november last year, police said.
They said the gang, all aged 22 years, came to know that Sakthivel (29), who was responsible for murdering their friend following a quarrel during the Vinayaka chathurthi festival in this town on November 2 2013, was staying in Thangachimadam after getting bail in a murder case as he feared he would be murdered.
Police said the youths came to know about it and planned to murder him there.
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The local police patrol team who saw the four moving around in suspicious circumstances detained them. A search revealed that they were carrying the knives. During questioning they reportedly confessed to planning to murder Sakthivel
All of them were arrested and later remanded to 15 days judicial custody, police said.
