Four men hacked a 35-year-old man to death in a popular restaurant on Friday afternoon in Tiruttani, 90km from Chennai. Police believe the attack was carried out by members of a rival gang. The murdered man has been identified as Mahesh of Veppampattu in Tiruvallur district. The CCTV camera footage from the popular vegetarian restaurant shows several people eating around 2.40pm before the peace is shattered by the shouts of a frightened man running in, with four men armed with machetes close on his heels. Even as Mahesh looks for a way out, the men reach him, push him to the floor and slash his body open with weapons before strolling out. The attack lasted for 30 seconds. The CCTV footage shows hotel staff, children and adults screaming and running, some with their eyes shut in terror, others closing their ears to shut out the wails of the man being murdered. One man is seen dashing out with two children, and another, unable to move from his corner of a table, closed the eyes of his son. After the gang leaves, the footage shows a woman blankly staring at her plate with her ears closed, and a man cowering underneath a table. A police team arrived with fingerprint experts, registered a case and sent the body to the government hospital for postmortem. Preliminary investigation revealed that Mahesh had come to a court complex near the restaurant, to meet a friend remanded for murder. After meeting him, Mahesh started walking towards the restaurant for lunch, when he was chased by the gangmembers, an officer said. Faced with centuries-old documents and ancient pictures, placed before the Supreme Court as evidence in the Ayodhya land dispute case, the judges are taking help of magnifying glass to examine them minutely. Accounts of various western and Chinese pilgrims and travellers who visited India from 13th century onwards have been placed before a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S A Bobde, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer. The evidence presented before them also includes manuscripts and scriptures from ancient and medieval periods. Four men hacked a 35-year-old man to death in a popular restaurant on Friday afternoon in Tiruttani, 90km from Chennai. Police believe the attack was carried out by members of a rival gang. The murdered man has been identified as Mahesh of Veppampattu in Tiruvallur district. The CCTV camera footage from the popular vegetarian restaurant shows several people eating around 2.40pm before the peace is shattered by the shouts of a frightened man running in, with four men armed with machetes close on his heels. Even as Mahesh looks for a way out, the men reach him, push him to the floor and slash his body open with weapons before strolling out. The attack lasted for 30 seconds. The CCTV footage shows hotel staff, children and adults screaming and running, some with their eyes shut in terror, others closing their ears to shut out the wails of the man being murdered. One man is seen dashing out with two children, and another, unable to move from his corner of a table, closed the eyes of his son. After the gang leaves, the footage shows a woman blankly staring at her plate with her ears closed, and a man cowering underneath a table. A police team arrived with fingerprint experts, registered a case and sent the body to the government hospital for postmortem. Preliminary investigation revealed that Mahesh had come to a court complex near the restaurant, to meet a friend remanded for murder. After meeting him, Mahesh started walking towards the restaurant for lunch, when he was chased by the gangmembers, an officer said. Faced with centuries-old documents and ancient pictures, placed before the Supreme Court as evidence in the Ayodhya land dispute case, the judges are taking help of magnifying glass to examine them minutely. Accounts of various western and Chinese pilgrims and travellers who visited India from 13th century onwards have been placed before a bench of Chief Justice R