Udupi: Police arrest five for murder of rowdy Pitty Nagesh
Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (UM)
Updated: Sep 12
Udupi, Sep 12: Acting swiftly, the Udupi DCIB police have arrested five persons in connection to the brutal murder of rowdy sheeter Pitty Nagesh on Thursday September 11.
The arrested are Korankarapady Vishwanath, Guruprasad Alveoor, Munna, Santosh of Nandagokula, and Zakir Kukkikatte.
Guruprasad and Munna
Among them, Munna is said to have been an aide of Pitty Nagesh, but conspired against him.
Guruprasad Alevoor, Santosh and others had made murderous attacks on Nagesh on previous occasions too.
Lately, due to deteriorating health, Pitty Nagesh was confined to his house. It is learnt that on Thursday evening, Munna visited him and took him out in a car to a bar in Katapady, and after ensuring that Nagesh was sufficiently inebriated, took him in the car towards Udupi.
As per the plan hatched by the gangsters, the car was waylaid at Udyavar and Nagesh was brutally attacked and murdered. Munna then fled away with the other accused in their white Maruti 800 car.
The police first arrested Guruprasad and then the others based on the information provided by him. More details are expected to be divulged after thorough interrogation of the accused.
Earlier Report: Sep 11
Udupi: Rowdy sheeter Pitty Nagesh hacked to death at Udyavar
Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi
Updated
Udupi, Sep 11: It has now been ascertained that the man who was murdered by a group of men at Udyavar here on Thursday September 11 was notorious rowdy sheeter Pitty Nagesh.
It is suspected that the murder was carried out by Vinod Shettigar's gang as an act of revenge. Rowdy Vinod Shettigar was murdered in Hiriadka jail on January 14, 2011, and Nagesh was one of the accused in the case.
Also, a few years ago, a brutal attempt was made to murder Nagesh, allegedly by Shettigar's gang near Diana theatre.
Pitty Nagesh was accused in several cases of murder, attempts to murder, ganja peddling and issuing death threats. He was an accused in the murder of a Nepali student in Manipal, and murder of 'Hai Marutha' editor Hitendra Prasad in 2005.
However, after the last murderous attack on him by the rival gang, he had given up criminal activities and his health too had deteriorated due to the assault. He was mostly confined to his house. The last assault was allegedly carried out by Guruprasad Alevoor, who was an aide of Shettigar, along with four others. Nagesh was in Manipal hospital for a long time following the attack.
Meanwhile, the police who arrived at the crime spot in Udyavar found a mobile phone and sword used in the killing. It is said that the attackers came in a white Maruti 800.
Earlier Report
Udupi: Man hacked to death by unknown assailants at Udyavar
Pics: Umesh Marpalli
Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi
Udupi, Sep 11: A man was found hacked to death a few feet away from his car in front of Halima Sabju auditorium at Udyavar here on Thursday September 11.
The identity of the deceased has not yet been established, but he was said to be between 30 to 40 years old.
It is suspected that some persons waylaid the victim's car when he was driving from Udyavar to Udupi town and hacked him to death before fleeing the place.
Locals said that they saw two or three persons having a heating argument with the victim, and when it seemed to go out of hand, they hurried to a nearby auto rickshaw stand to seek help. However, by the time the locals and the auto rickshaw drivers came to the spot, the attackers had fled, leaving the victim in a pool of blood.
SP Rajendra Prasad, DySP Santosh Kumar and personnel of Kaup police station arrived at the spot and inspected.
A nakabandi has been imposed in Udupi to catch hold of the attackers.
The body was taken to Ajjarkad hospital for post-mortem.