Murder accused on bail, hacked to death by group

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: A 27-year-old murder accused who was out on bail from the prison six months ago, was brutally hacked to death by a group of assailants suspectedly over an old animosity.

The incident took place around 4 am on Sunday in Suryanagar Police Station limits in Bengaluru.

The police identified the deceased as Vijay Kumar. It is being said that the deceased was arrested by the police in 2017 after a person named Babloo alias Manoj, was murdered here.

The police said that Kumar was asleep in his house when he was called out by a group of men on the pretext of talking to him.

However he was taken to a distance and fatally attacked by the men who wielded machetes. Sustaining severe head injuries, as Kumar collapsed, the accused thrashed him some more before fleeing the spot.

The matter came to the notice of the jurisdictional police when a few passers-by noticed Kumar's bludgeoned body lying on the road and alerted the control room.

Following the incident, Bengaluru Rural Superintendent of Police (SP) Mallikarjuna Baldandi visited the spot and inspected the body before it was sent for a postmortem analysis.

The family of the deceased have alleged that the murder was orchestrated by the deceased Manoj's friends and relatives as an act of revenge on Vijay Kumar.

However the police are yet to determine the people behind the murder.

A case has been registered at the Suryanagar Police Station and a search is underway to trace and nab the absconding accused, the police said.