When a sensational murder shook Tamil Nadu on July 5, another Friday

That day in 1996, two men, wielding long knives, brutally hacked Vijaykumar, an accused in an attempt to murder case, in front of Egmore Xth Metropolitan Magistrate P. Devadoss, court workers, advocates, and litigants. It was similar to the daring killing of K. Armstrong, Tamil Nadu president of the Bahujan Samaj Party, in Chennai last week