The Murder
In the morning of November 8, 1944, Lakshmikanthan paid a visit to his close friend and lawyer, J. Nargunam, who lived in Vepery. As he was returning to his house at Purasawalkam in a hand-rickshaw, Lakshmikanthan was attacked by a group of unknown assailants one of whom stabbed him with a knife. The bleeding Lakshmikanthan, however, managed to garner enough strength to walk all the way to the lawyer's house, who listened to Lakshmikanthan's description of the incident and then, sent him to General Hospital, Madras in the company of his friend, Mr. Brew, an Anglo-Indian.
On the way, Lakshmikanthan requested the rickshaw-driver to stop at Vepery police station to file a complaint against the assailants. At about that time, Mr. Brew took leave of him. Profusely bleeding and unable to move, Lakshmikanthan dictated his description of the incident while sitting in the rickshaw while inspector Krishnan Nambiyar wrote it down in a piece of paper.
At the General Hospital, Lakshmikanthan was admitted to the Wenlock Ward when bleeding in the abdomen did not cease. In the ward, Dr. P. R. Balakrishnan inspected his abdomen in order to check whether there was a serious wound. After this inspection, Lakshmikanthan's condition reportedly grew serious and he died at 4.15 AM on November 9, 1944 due to secondary shock caused by damage to the kidney.
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