A 33-year-old man was chased and allegedly hacked to death in broad daylight in Karnataka’s Hubballi on Friday, with police suspecting that past enmity may have led to the killing.
What police said
The deceased was identified as Dadapeer Udayakar, a native of Nekar Nagar in Hubballi. He had been living with his wife and children in Bogenagarakoppa in Kalghatgi taluk and had been engaged in agriculture there for the past eight years, news agency PTI quoted the police as saying . A video of the incident has gone viral on social media, showing a man lying on a road as two persons attack him with sharp weapons.
Hubballi-Dharwad Police Commissioner N Shashikumar said the murder was reported around 1 pm in the Siddeshwar Park area of Vidyanagar. Police said preliminary information showed that Dadapeer had earlier been an accused in the 2015 murder of a person named Maruti. He was acquitted in that case in 2017.
Eyewitnesses said Dadapeer was chased by the assailants for several hundred metres before he fell after colliding with a two-wheeler coming from the opposite direction, according to The New Indian Express . His rowdy sheet was also closed around four years ago, according to police.
