New Delhi: Eight people were arrested in India on Saturday for the murder of a politician who championed the rights of lower-caste Indians, police said.
K. Armstrong, the state boss of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), was hacked to death with machetes and sickles near his home in the southern city of Chennai on Friday night.
Six men travelling on motorbikes attacked Armstrong while he was “chatting with friends and supporters” near his home in the Tamil Nadu state capital, the Indian Express newspaper reported.