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Man hacked to death over ‘affair’ CRIME NOTES

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: A 23-year-old man, an employee of a financer, was hacked to death allegedly by his employer and three others in Tilaknagar police station limits on Sunday night.

The police gave the name of the deceased as Manikanta, a resident of Swagath Main Road. He was working with the financier “Will” Mohan. Around 11.30 p.m. Mohan and his three aides attacked Manikanta with swords on 30th Cross, 26th Main, Swagath Main Road, killing him on the spot, the police said. Police said Manikanta’s alleged affair with Mohan’s wife led to the murder. The police registered a case of murder.

Cash stolen

Thieves cut the glass panes of a software engineer’s car and made away with a bag containing Rs. 3.15 lakh in Jeevanbimanagar police station limits on Saturday afternoon. The police said Lalith Sharma left Citibank’s Mahatma Gandhi Road branch around 12.45 p.m. in his car after withdrawing the amount. On reaching Gitanjali Layout, near C.V. Raman Nagar, Mr. Sharma got down from his car to see off his friend who was travelling with him. When he returned to his vehicle five minutes later, he found that someone had cut the glass panes of the window and stolen the cash bag that was next to the driver’s seat. The Jeevanbimanagar police suspect the thieves had trailed Sharma’s car from the bank.

Robbed

Four men barged into a second floor house in J.C. Nagar police station limits in the early hours of Monday and robbed the five occupants of Rs. 5,700 cash and a mobile phone.

The police said the incident took place around 1.30 a.m. at Vijay Chatri’s house in Modi Garden. Mr. Chatri works for a software company on Brigade Road.

His brother Vikram and his three friends, Vinod, Bharath and Vikrant, who work with a caterer, also live in the same house.

The police suspect that the intruders, who came asking for one Suhail, were also employed by the caterer.

The J.C. Nagar police have registered a case.

Killed

Raje Gowda (30) of Subramanyanagar was killed after an autorickshaw, in which he was travelling, overturned after hitting a road median in Malleswaram traffic police station limits on Sunday night.

The police said the accident occurred around 10.30 p.m. on Mahakavi Kuvempu Road.

The autorickshaw driver suffered minor injuries. The Malleswaram traffic police have registered a case.

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