Police personnel have been deployed around the house of Narayan Mali, main accused in the murder of Jain monk Sri Kamakumara Nandi Maharaj, in Hirekodi village near Chikkodi of Belagavi district.
A van full of KSRP constables and an officer have been posted near the house and farm of the accused.
All the relatives of the accused have left the village in the fear of retaliation by the devotees of the ashram.