coimbatore a family of six including a 50yearold woman hacked a garment unit worker in tirupur on wednesday night they suspected him of having a relationship with a woman from their family a team of police have been sent to a southern district of tamil nadu where the suspects are said to have taken refugethe deceased was identified as k murugesan 35 of muthayyan nagar he worked as a tailor in a garment unit in tirupur police said murugesans wife was pregnant and had gone to her maternal home in her absence murugesan allegedly developed an affair with kavitha wife of manikkam living on the same street police said manikkam of usilampatti in madurai district came to know about the affair a few days back and assaulted murugesan and asked him to leave the locality murugesan left the house the very same day and has been living elsewhere since then but on wednesday night he returned to the house said an investigating official manikkam was furious to find murugesan again in the house and picked up a quarrel with him soon manikkams family members including brother sathyaraj father pichai mother indrani and two others barged into the house and attacked murugesan with sickles and knives police saidmurugesan died on the spot and manikkam and his family members fled by the time the neighbours found about the murder manikkam and his family locked their house and escaped police saidthe kin of the deceased on thursday staged a protest in their locality demanding arrest of the six suspects who are on the run we have got a tip off that they are hiding in a town in southern tamil nadu a team has been sent there to nab them said the investigating official