Traffic was hit for about five hours on the Ramanathapuram-Rameswaram National Highway as family members and relatives of M. Ramachandran, 48, a fisherman who was murdered on Saturday, placed the body on the road and staged a protest, pressing for a charter of demands, including compensation to the family of the deceased.
Ramachandran was walking near the auto stand at Nagachi on Saturday when two persons, identified as M. Muneeskumar, 27, and his brother M. Karthi, 22, attacked him with iron rods. The victim, who suffered serious head injuries, succumbed to them while being taken to the hospital.
Accepting the body after post-mortem at Government District Headquarters Hospital here on Sunday, the kin placed the body on the national highway near the Union Office at Uchipuli around 12 30 p.m. and staged the protest, demanding the remand of the accused under the Goondas Act and compensation to the family.
