HC orders Armstrong’s burial in Tiruvallur

Mayawati pays her last respects to the mortal remains of party leader K Armstrong. Pic/PTI

The Madras High Court on Sunday held a special sitting to hear a plea of the wife of slain Tamil Nadu BSP president K Armstrong, seeking to bury his body at the party office here. The HC allowed the burial to be held in neighbouring Tiruvallur district.

The government opposed the plea, saying the party office was located in a residential area. Armstrong, 52, chief of Tamil Nadu unit of the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), was hacked to death by a group of assailants on Friday.

His wife moved the HC with a plea to bury him in the party office here. The plea came up before Justice V Bhavani Subbaroyan. The government opposed the plea saying it was a residential area and that it had identified three others spots for the burial.

Mayawati demands CBI probe into murder

BSP supremo Mayawati on Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the death of her party's slain TN president K Armstrong, who was hacked to death on Friday. She claimed those who have been arrested so far were not the real culprits and urged CM Stalin to refer the probe to the Central agency. Mayawati paid homage to Armstrong here and placed a wreath before the body of the leader at a private school in Perambur in the city.

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