Tension prevailed in parts of Gokak on the night of November 12, Sunday, after a group pelted stones at the house of a young man, accusing him of killing another.
Unidentified miscreants waylaid Santosh Pujari, 27, who worked in a petrol bunk, and killed him on the road in the outskirts of the city. His relatives and friends, who suspected an old acquaintance of the victim to be the accused, went to his house in Adi Jambava colony and began pelting stones.
