Former Minister and BJP MLC C.P. Yogeshwar’s brother-in-law Mahadevaiah, 62, was found dead inside the M.M. Hills forest range in Chamarajanagar district on Monday. He had gone missing on Saturday from his farmhouse at Chakkere village in Channapatna taluk of Ramanagara district. The police suspect he was bludgeoned to death with a stone.
According to the Ramanagara police, Mahadevaiah, an agriculturist, used to regularly stay at the farmhouse and often visited Bengaluru where his family stayed.
On Saturday, when a few villagers visited the farmhouse to meet him, they discovered that the door was open and Mahadevaiah was not to be seen anywhere. The house was also ransacked with the contents of the cupboard scattered everywhere.
