An activist of Dravida Viduthalai Kazhakam (DVK) was found murdered, with multiple injuries in an open field in Ukkadam in the heart of the city, around midnight yesterday, even as one person surrendered before a Magistrate Court this evening.

According to police, a prominent DVK worker, an iron scrap merchant, Farooq (31) was found lying dead with deep cuts on the throat, leg and abdomen, reportedly attacked by a gang with lethal weapons.

The body was sent to postmortem to the government hospital here, where some activists of DVK and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi staged a picketing, as police refused to allow them to take body in a procession, they said.

Meanwhile, one Ansad, a resident of Podanur on the outskirts, surrendered before a Judicial Magistrate Court in the evening, in connection with the murder, said to be due to previous enmity, police said.

Farooq was reportedly asked to come to discuss about some business in the night in the secluded area, where Corporation waste is dumped. Some four men in two motorcycles and a three-wheeler reportedly arrived there and slayed Farooq with lethal weapons, they said.

Special teams have been formed to nab others involved in the murder.

The DVK president, Kolathur Mani visited the family members and consoled the aggrieved