Gang arrested for murdering rowdy sheeter

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Cottonpet police arrested six accused who were allegedly involved in the brutal murder of a history sheeter on the night of Mahashivarathri in the city.

The arrested accused were identified as Stephan, Chandrashekhar, Shibu, Shekhar, Mani and Kiran, by the police.

A resident of Flower Garden, Shiva alias Sharath, 35, was chased and hacked to death brutally by the accused persons a few metres away from his house around 9:30 pm on Friday.

He was returning to his house from a Mahashivarathri procession. The police said that an old rivalry between the gangs was the cause of murder. Shiva was a history sheeter of Cottonpet Police Station.

The accused persons, wielding machetes and daggers, were waiting for Shiva near his house as they had planned the attack in advance.

The accused assaulted Shiva leaving him severely injured following which he died while being transported to the hospital. The Flower Garden area has a two-decade history of bloody gang wars and murders.

In 2021, former councillor Rekha Kadiresh was hacked to death in broad daylight allegedly by the associates of one Jhopdi Rajendra, in an act of revenge.

Recently, the Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda had increased the patrolling and security around the area specially during the nights.