A 50-year-old man was hacked to death allegedly by his nephew over a drunken brawl at Cholashettihalli in Gauribidanur on Monday morning.
The deceased was identified as Ramakrishna, a local political activist. He was walking home after getting milk from a dairy when the accused, identified as Nagaraj, confronted him with a machete and hacked him to death on the road, said the police.
The police shifted the body for post-mortem and tracked down the accused within a few hours of the incident.
