Hassan Police have arrested two people in connection with the murder of JD(S) member of Hassan City Municipal Council Prashanth Nagaraj. The arrested are Poornachandra and Arun. A few more said to have been involved in the crime.
The police had seized the autorickshaw and the weapons used in the crime on Wednesday night itself. Personal differences over a property dispute is said to be the reason for the murder.
Prashanth, 42, was murdered by a group of people while he was on the way to his home on Wednesday evening in Laxmipura Extension in Pension Mohalla Police Station limits. Pension Mohalla police registered the case based on a complaint filed by Prashanth’s wife Sowmya. She had named Poornachandra and his friends as accused in the complaint.
