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A 30-year-old history-sheeter was hacked to death by an unidentified gang near the water tank on Indira Nagar Main Road in Adyar around 11.30 am on Tuesday.

Leader of the Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin on Tuesday visited Puzhal Central Prison in Chennai and met former School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, who was remanded in judicial custody until November 6 in connection with an alleged Rs 100-crore private school approval scam.

The escape of 17 undertrial prisoners from the Thekkampatti sub-jail in Theni district has triggered a political attack on the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government, with DMK president M K Stalin, AIADMK leader Edappadi Palaniswami, DMK deputy general secretary Udhayanidhi Stalin and AMMK general secretary TTV Dhinakaran questioning the State’s prison security and law-and-order machinery.

Seventeen undertrial prisoners allegedly pretended to suffer seizures to trick prison guards into approaching their cell before attacking them and escaping from the Thekkampatti sub-jail near Andipatti in Theni district, South Zone Inspector General of Police Vijayendra Bidari said. 

The escape of 17 undertrial prisoners from the Thekkampatti sub-jail in Theni district has triggered a political attack on the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government, with DMK president M K Stalin, DMK deputy general secretary Udhayanidhi Stalin and AMMK general secretary TTV Dhinakaran questioning the State’s prison security and law-and-order machinery.