Two days after a realtor was hacked to demise in Bengaluru, 5 folks surrendered earlier than the Bharati Nagar police on Thursday in reference to the homicide case, during which former minister and BJP MLA Byrathi Basavaraj can be an accused.
A court docket despatched the individuals who surrendered–Kiran, Pradeep, Vimal, Madan, and Samuel–to 10 days’ police custody, an officer mentioned.
On Tuesday, greater than eight folks allegedly killed Shiva Kumar alias Bikla Shivu, a resident of Halasuru, when he was standing exterior his residence in Halasuru together with his driver, Imran, and good friend Lokesh.
The homicide allegedly passed off over a property dispute, however the surrendered males claimed that that they had killed Shiva Kumar over a private dispute, based on the police.
Shiva Kumar’s mom Vijayalakshmi mentioned that she witnessed the homicide from her balcony. In her criticism, she named Puram BJP MLA Byrathi Basavaraj.
In response to Vijayalakshmi’s police criticism, Shiva Kumar was into the actual property enterprise and he had obtained demise threats to surrender a property for which a basic energy of legal professional had been registered in his identify in 2023. On February 11, a couple of males allegedly barged into the property and chased some staff who had been staying in a shed that Shiva Kumar had constructed on it.
They allegedly threatened to kill Shiva Kumar if he didn’t surrender the property, Vijayalakshmi mentioned, including that he had filed a police criticism stating that it was at Byrathi Basavaraj’s behest that the lads have been issuing demise threats.
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The police have issued a discover to Byrathi Basavaraj directing him to look earlier than the investigation group within the case, a police officer mentioned.
The BJP MLA has rejected the allegations, stating that he does even know who Shiva Kumar was.
Shiva Kumar was additionally a rowdy-sheeter with many circumstances registered in opposition to him, based on the police.