Daijiworld Media Network – Bantwal (RD/AF)

Bantwal, Feb 22: The town police have intensified the investigations to trace the killers of auto rickshaw driver Iqbal who was murdered in a rubber plantation at Pacchinadka, in B-Mooda village on Thursday February 21 morning.  

Iqbal was brutally murdered by two killers who hired his auto rickshaw at city's railway station to go to a deserted location in Pacchinadka where they stabbed him.

Iqbal was known to be actively involved in an organization and may have developed enmity with certain people, sourced informed.

Orginally from Chakribettu, he had deserted his father and moved to a rented accommodation in the city, where he stayed with his mother and sister. Police are investigating the circumstances that led to the murder of Iqbal. 

Although the incident initially threatened to take the shape of communal unrest the situation remained peaceful which points towards possible personal enmity being the cause behind the murder.