India, Aug. 6 -- A 57-year-old special sub-inspector (SSI) was hacked to death in Tamil Nadu's Tiruppur district on Wednesday while trying to stop a family dispute, police said.

The deceased was identified as M Shanmugavel. Police formed six special teams to look out for the suspects - Moorthy and his sons Manikandan (elder) and Thangapandi (younger) - all residents of Moongilthozhuvu near Gudimangalam in Tiruppur.

The trio lived and worked on farmland owned by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) MLA C Mahendran.

The Kudimangalam police station had received a distress call via the control room around 11 pm on Tuesday that a father and his sons were fighting on farmland, Tamil Nadu's West Zone inspector general of police T...