Silvester D'Souza

Daijiworld Media Network - Kundapur (SP)

Kundapur, Sep 20: In connection with the case in which their elder brother, who used to come home fully drunk and kick up a fight routinely, was killed and his mortal remains were burnt down, the additional district and sessions court here has granted conditional bail to the two younger brothers of the deceased. The person who was killed in this incident was Muttayya Naik (35) from Kambalagadde in Golihole village, while his brothers Durga Naik (31) and Raghavendra Naik (28), who were in the judicial custody, got bail.

Muttayya Naik

The family lives near Jattigeshwara shrine at Kambalagadde. Muttayya used to come home fully drunk evey night and fought with the family members. The two younger brothers were thereafter accused of tying up their elder brother and killing Muttayya by tightening a rope around his neck on April 26, 2018. It was said that in order to project this death as suicide, they had burnt down the body of their elder brother in a thicket near their home at 7.30 pm the same day. They had spread the information that their elder brother had gone missing all of a sudden. The police had arrested the accused on April 28.

It was said that the brothers had burnt down the nylon rope used by them to bind Muttayya in order destroy any trace of evidence. However, a few pieces of bones found among the ashes in the funeral pyre were sent by the police to forensic science laboratory. The laboratory had confirmed that the bones belonged to Muttayya Naik.

A case in this connection had been registered in Byndoor police station. Advocate from here, Ravikiran Murdeshwar, had represented the accused in the court.