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Auto driver hacked to death Crime notes

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BANGALORE: An armed gang barged into an autorickshaw driver’s house in Peenya police station limits in the early hours of Tuesday and hacked him to death.

The police gave the name of the victim as Manjunath (28), a resident of Gangondanahalli.

He was an accused in murder cases and an associate of the murdered gangster Thammaiah of Govindarajnagar, the police said. Around 12.45 a.m. five men, who came in a car, smashed the window panes of Manjunath’s house and confirmed that he was at home. Later, they broke open the door and attacked him with swords and choppers, killing him on the spot, the police said. The Peenya police suspect that Manjunath was murdered because of gang rivalry.

Stabbed

Mahadeva (30), driver of a goods vehicle, was stabbed to death in Basavanagudi police station limits on Tuesday.

The police said that around 2.45 p.m. when Mahadeva was at the tempo stand near Nettakallappa Circle, Ganesh stabbed him in the abdomen with a knife. Mahadeva was rushed to a hospital on Bull Temple Road and he died there, they said. According to the police, Mahadeva and Ganesh, both residents of Sreenivasanagar, had quarrelled earlier in the day. There is a history sheet against Ganesh in the Hanumanthanagar police station, they said.

Burgled

Burglars made away with Rs. 1.5 lakh cash and gold ornaments worth Rs. 5 lakh from Narendra’s flat in National Games village.

The police said the theft took place at Narendra’s flat in Malaprabha block when he had been to Chikmagalur on November 3. His neighbours on Tuesday noticed that the house had been burgled and alerted him. The Adugodi police have registered a case.

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