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Watchman murdered

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The watchman at a police officer's house, who was attacked with iron rods in the compound of the official's residence in Whitefield police station limits, died in a hospital on Friday.

The police gave the name of the person as Jai Bahadur (26), a Nepali Gorkha. He worked as watchman at the house of Ashok, Assistant Commissioner of Police (High Court Security), on Borewell Road in Whitefield.

According to the police, Mr. Ashok was on night rounds on Thursday. He came home early on Friday and went to sleep.

After a little while he was informed that Bahadur was lying unconscious and that he had been hit on the head with iron rods. Mr. Ashok rushed him to a hospital where Bahadur died around 11 a.m.

The police suspect that Bahadur could have been murdered by dacoits who had come to loot Mr. Ashok's house.

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