Yogesh K Porwar & Avanth Kumar Kankaria
A 29-year-old dhaba employee who sustained burn injuries after a group of men set fire to the dhaba succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday.
The deceased has been identified as,Manoj was having dinner at around 12.40 am after cleaning the dhaba while his colleagues were sleeping.
He came out of the dhaba after hearing a blast sound followed by a flash of light.Thinking that it was a transformer blast due to an electric short circuit.
Manoj came out only to be confronted by an unidentified man,who splashed a chemical smell like petrol on him .
Soon Manoj was engulfed in fire and ran inside the dhaba to get help from his colleague Tejas.
The other staff members doused the fire and ran out to safety before the dhaba was on fire .
The Soladevanahalli police based on the statement of Manoj, taken up a case against the unknown persons charging them under section 436 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy house) and section 307 ( attempt to murder) .
However after the death of Manoj, the police added a murder case against the accused and stepped up investigations to track them down said a senior officer.
