Chennai, Nov. 11 -- A man was murdered inside a police residential quarters in Tamil Nadu's Trichy district on Monday even as Chief minister M K Stalin was in the town for government events and has been facing mounting criticism of deteriorating law and order.

The deceased has been identified as Thamaraichelvan, a 25-year-old who worked in the real estate business. The motive of the murder was previous enmity involving real estate, police said. Five suspects chased the victim near a locality, Bheemnagar when the deceased was on a two-wheeler. He was knocked down after the gang hit his two-wheeler with their bikes and he ran into the new police residential quarters nearby hoping that the secure housing for police would save him, according...