Speaker of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly M. Appavu comforts the family of the injured at Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital on March 3, 2026 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The recent double murder in Nanguneri, which was initially believed to be an attack unleashed by a group of intoxicated youth without provocation, has emerged, after investigation, as an assault orchestrated by a dominant intermediate caste to silence youth from other communities. During investigation, police found that a group of Paraiyar community youths from Indra Colony in Perumpaththu had recently released posters glorifying ‘Manalmedu’ Shankar, a lorry driver from the Delta region who was killed in an encounter with the police in February 2007. He was facing several murder, abduction and drug smuggling cases. As ‘Manalmedu’ Shankar attacked the police and tried to escape from their custody when he was being escorted to Madurai Central Prison from the court , he was shot dead in self-defence, the police had then claimed. As these posters of ‘Manalmedu’ Shankar pasted around Nanguneri and along the highways to commemorate his death …