Murder! Advise to ‘wheeling’ youths proves costly, 26-year-old hacked to death
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Mysuru: A 26-year-old youth was allegedly hacked to death over a trivial at Kethupura in T Narsipur taluk on Saturday night. Six youths of the same village have been arrested.
Siddaraju was allegedly attacked by a 10-member gang of armed youths. They threw chilli powder into the eyes of Siddaraju before hitting him with a machette.
The accused identified as Subhash, Chandan, Puneeth, Vinay, Mahendra and Ravi were arrested within a few hours of the incident.
According to police, Siddaraju had advised the accused against doing wheeling on two-wheelers on the narrow road of the village.
This had led to a clash among them and a complaint had been lodged in this regard at police station two days ago.
Irked, the youths picked up a quarrel with Siddaraju that ended in his murder. Siddaraju’s uncle who went to the rescue of his nephew also sustained injuries.
Additional SP Shivakumar visited the spot.
Bannur police have registered a case.
– Team Mysoorunews
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