Thanjavur (Tamil Nadu): In a shocking incident, a 35-year-old former functionary of BJP Mahila Morcha was brutally hacked to death by an unidentified gang at Udayasuryapuram village at Pattukottai in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu late on Monday night.
Police said here on Tuesday that the deceased was identified as B. Saranya, a native of Sellur in Madurai.
The woman was returning home by foot, after closing a photostat shop run by her.
The unidentified gang which followed Saranya hacked her with machetes. Her head was severed in the murderous attack.
The gang fled from the spot after killing the woman.
Saranya’s husband, who went in search of her as she did not return home even after late hours, found the body in a pool of blood.
The body was removed to the government hospital at Pattukottai for post-mortem.
The Vattathikottai police have registered a case and are searching for the assailants involved in the murder.
The motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained.
Saranya was among nine BJP members who were arrested by the police for hurling footwear at the car of then Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Dr. Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, when he was leaving Madurai airport after paying respects to the mortal remains of soldier D. Lakshmanan in August 2022. She was let out on bail by a judicial magistrate court in Madurai.
Later, she settled at Udayasuryapuram with her second husband Balan (45) and ran a photostat shop, after the death of her first husband.
