Drunken brawl results in death of man

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: A 25 - year - old man was found murdered near Kamadhenu Hospital in Govindaraj Nagar Police Station limits on Friday afternoon. The police identified the deceased as Naresh, a labourer. Preliminary investigation by the jurisdictional police revealed that Naresh had come to a bar in Govindaraj Nagar as it was his weekly off.

While in the bar, he got into a fight with his friends over a trivial matter and exchanged abuses. However, the bar staff intervened and pacified them. Later when Naresh came out of the bar, his friends again picked up a fight with him, which turned violent.

During the fight, one of his friends took a heavy stone and smashed Naresh's head, which resulted in his death on the spot. The gang soon fled the scene, police said. The police also said that the deceased as well as the accused persons were all in inebriated state during the fight.