Chennai: Two Malayalis in their fifties were found dead in Nallamalli Muthupallam of the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday. The dead were identified as Sivakumar Viswanathan from Kochi and Naveen from Thiruvananthapuram. Their bodies were found, with grave injuries, on the wayside of the road that links Dharmapuri and Salem and leading to a quarry.
Sivakumar owns the company Valiyaveedu Travels, which is based out of Varapuzha in Kochi. He was apparently debt-ridden due to the pandemic. He is the son of the former panchayat president Viswanath Pai. Vineetha Sivakumar is his wife.
As per reports, Naveen is Sivakumar's friend and the duo had travelled to Salem in a friend's car on Sunday morning for business purposes.
