CHAVARA: A Tamil Nadu native man was bludgeoned to death by his colleague while he was sleeping. The deceased has been identified as Mahalinga (54) of Balaji Apartment in Madurai Illyas Nagar, Tamil Nadu.

In connection with the incident, the police arrested Biju (38), son of Kannan, from Kottayam's Karukachal. The incident took place at 1:30 am yesterday. Both of them came for the construction of Balabhadra Devi Temple at Neendakara Puthantuhra Konna. During a drinking session last night, a verbal altercation took place and later Biju hit Mahalingam on the head with a iron rod while he was sleeping near the temple around 1:30 am. Then Biju himself called an ambulance. Mahalingam's dead body was found when the ambulance staff arrived.

After this, the ambulance staff informed Chavara police. Police arrived and arrested Biju. The body was shifted to the district hospital morgue. Fingerprint experts reached the spot and conducted the examination. After the post-mortem, the body was taken to Madurai yesterday evening. Wife: Murugeswari, Daughter: Keerthika. Son-in-law: Manikandan.