Man kills brother, dresses it up as accident

NT Correspondent
Bengaluru

In a shocking development, the Sidlagatta town police have cracked the murder of a businessman, which was earlier reported as an accident case. On June 2, the rural police had found the body of a man on the Chimangala Road.

The victim had sustained a head injury and it seemed as if he had fallen off his bike. The town police took up the case and started investigations which revealed some surprising facts involving the incident. The deceased was identified by the police as Anjinappa.

When the police checked the call record details (CDR) of the deceased, they stumbled upon repeated calls from one number and grew suspicious and summoned a person by name Venkatesh, 29, to the station for inquiry.

Dharme Gowda, Circle Inspector, Sidlaghatta, said that Venkatesh, a labourer, owned a piece of land which was a part of an ancestral property shared between him and his elder brother Nagesh. The brothers used to have differences over the property and used to fight regularly, the police said. Venkatesh assumed that Nagesh, using the influence of Chikka Anjinappa, who was a middleman at the taluk office, would take over his share of property and decided to eliminate Chikka Anjinappa, according to the police.

As per the plan, Venkatesh stalked Chikka Anjinappa and called him multiple times to know his location on the pretext of meeting him for an important work. An unsuspecting Anjinappa gave him the location. Venkatesh was following him on his route while he was returning home from work. According to the police, Venkatesh confronted him on the isolated road and hit him on his head with a tree branch. Anjinappa sustained severe head injuries and slipped from his bike and died. Further investigations are on, police said.