Daylight horror: Murder accused hacked to death in Surathkal, gang rivalry suspected

February 4, 2014

Mangalore, Feb 4: A youth with criminal antecedents was dragged out from a bus and hacked to death by a gang of unidentified miscreats on Tuesday at Kulai near Surathkal on the outskirts of the city.

The deceased has been identified as Prakash.

The police, who suspect gang rivalry to be the motive behind the killing, said Prakash was arrested and granted bail in Kodikere Shivaraj murder case.

According to eyewitness, the gang barged into the bus in which he was travelling and attacked him with swords and chopper near NIT-K area, even as the shocked passengers watched helplessly.

“The bus driver moved the vehicle immediately after Prakash was dragged out. The gang then started hacking the youth indiscriminately and fled the spot in cars," said an eyewitness.

Prakash collapsed in a pool of blood and died on the spot. Police rushed to the spot and sent the body for postmortem to Wenlock hospital.

He was with his father in a bus moving towards Udupi after routine signing at Panambur police station in Shivaraj murder case.

Police are yet to identify the suspects, but the incident has sparked outrage among residents of Kulai and Surathkal with regard to the assaults in the last three weeks.

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BJP fields Kishore Kumar Puttur from DK-Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency

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October 1,2024

The BJP has selected Kishore Kumar Puttur as its candidate for the bypoll to Karnataka Legislative Council from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency. The by-election will be held on October 21.

Kishore Kumar is presently serving as the General Secretary of Dakshina Kannada BJP unit. He had served as vice president of State BJP Yuva Morcha from 2014 to 2016.

The by-election will be held to the seat vacated by Kota Srinivas Poojary of the BJP who has been elected as the Lok Sabha member from Udupi-Chikmagaluru Lok Sabha constituency. The vacancy was created on June 15, 2024 following Poojary’s resignation to the Council. His term in the council was till January, 2028.

In the last Council election held for the dual member constituency in December 2021, Poojary had secured 3,672 votes while the Congress candidate Manjunath Bhandary had secured 2079 votes. Poojary and Bhandary had secured required votes from the first preferential votes and had won the election.

There were several aspirants for the BJP ticket including former MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK BJP president Satish Kumpala, Mangaluru divisional in-charge Uday Kumar Shetty, former minister Pramod Madhwaraj and former Udupi district BJP president Kuilady Suresh Nayak.

The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the election. KPCC working president Manjunath Bhandary in a recent press meet in Mangaluru had said that an opportunity will be given to congress leaders from Udupi district to contest by-election.

The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency has 6037 voters including 3551 from Dakshina Kannada comprising eight MLAs, one MP. The last date for filing nomination is October 3 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination is October 7. The counting will be held on October 24.

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