Chennai: A serving policeman, whose elder brother is an engineer and sister-in-law a judge, created a ruckus at their house in KK Nagar and then leaped off the second floor terrace, only to get killed as he landed right on the sharp iron spikes atop the compound wall.
Police said Selvakumar, 30, attached to the law-and-order wing of the Sembium police station, lived with his elder brother Perumal, who is an assistant engineer at the TNEB office at KK Nagar, and sister-in-law Dhanalakshmi, a mahila court judge in Chengalpet.
On Friday, around 9.30pm, a drunk Selvakumar picked up a quarrel with them. He locked the couple inside a room and ransacked their belongings and smashed home appliances.
Perumal called up friends and relatives and asked them to calm his brother down. People gathered in front of the house and started banging on the door; a few peeped in through windows and tried to negotiate.
Selvakumar, who noticed people calling the police control room, panicked and ran up to the second floor and tried to jump over the compound wall. But he fell short and was impaled on the iron spikes, police said
A police team from the KK Nagar station took him to the ESI Hospital in KK Nagar where he was declared brought dead.
The body will be given to his family after an autopsy on Saturday.
Selvakumar is the youngest of four brothers. The other two are farmers in their village near Villupuram.
