By IANS
Chennai : The Tamil Nadu police Saturday named two DMK councillors as perpetrators of a blast that killed a senior civic official Friday and began a manhunt to nab them.
P. Murugan, a municipal chairman in Sivaganga, about 450 km from here, and his driver were killed in the blast that ripped through their car.
Police have named Manimuthu and Mandhakalai as the perpetrators of the killings in the first information report (FIR) and declared them absconders as they are untraceable.
Acting on a complaint received from the Sivaganga Municipality's vice chairman Selvarangan, police began a manhunt for the duo after attempts to locate them in their known addresses failed.
"We have put out an all points bulletin to locate Manimuthu and Mandhakalai. Two police teams have been formed to search for them," a district police official said.
It is for the second time within two months that DMK functionaries have been accused of murder.
Three newspaper employees were burnt to death in Madurai, a temple town not far from Sivaganga, in May allegedly by the supporters of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's elder son M.K. Azhagiri.
Azhagiri had been charged with the brutal murder of another party old timer and former minister T. Kiruttinan in Madurai in 2003. The case is still being heard.
Murugan was said to belong to a faction opposed to Azhagiri.