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TNM spoke to local sources and a senior cop to unravel the bloody gangland wars that have gripped Madurai since 2001. This gang of four, according to the prosecution, had beheaded a young named Muruganandham on November 15, 2020.
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On Monday, November 22, the court observed that “the city of Madurai is facing a peculiar law and order issue with a war between two gangs, leading to a chain of murders one after the other as revenge.” A bench of Justices S Vaidyanathan and G Jayachandran made the observation while dismissing the habeas corpus pleas filed to revoke the detention orders of four people - Dineshkumar, Alex, Alaguraja and Raja - who were detained under the Goondas Act. The three-decade-old rivalry continues to simmer even today, so much so that it has now caught the attention of the Madras High Court. It cost more than 20 lives, spanning three generations of the two men’s family and friends who were unwittingly caught in the bitter rivalry.
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What started as a squabble over sticking political posters for an election in 2001, took no time to snowball into a gory gangland war between Gurusamy and Rajapandian. Sixty-three-year-old Rajapandian, meanwhile, is serving time for a murder case. Today, Gurusamy is 75-years-old, and lives with fear for his life, as he could be attacked any day.