Srikanth lived with his wife and two children in Iyyapanthangal and reached his father's house in Alwarthirunagar with a friend, identified as Karthik of Vadapalani.

As he was consuming alcohol with Karthik, Srikanth's father Balasubramani stepped out for dinner and returned home around 10 pm, when he found Srikanth lying dead in a pool of blood with hacking marks all over his body.

Since Karthik was missing, Balasubramani alerted police and a team from Koyambedu station rushed to the spot and retrieved his body for post-mortem at Kilpauk Medical College Hospital.

Preliminary inquiries revealed that he had an ongoing enmity with one Vellai Mani alias Vinothkumar over one-upmanship in the locality and a hunt has been launched to trace his five-member gang. Further investigation is on.