Pramesh S Jain & Dr B Thomas (Special correspondent)
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50-year-old construction labourer was allegedly tortured and beaten to death over bike theft accusation in Ramamurthynagar police station limits on Saturday.
The accused has been identified as,Srinivas Reddy and Subbaiah Naidu.
Senior officer told reporters,The deceased has been identified as,Ashwath, resident of Muneshwara Nagar was missing for the past three days and found dead on the road side close to an under construction house where he was working in Hoysala Nagar.
Ramamurthynagar police inspector and other crime staff rushed to the spot and sent the body for postmortem and later identified the victim.
A preliminary probe revealed that the assailant had tied the hands and legs of Ashwath with binding wire and ropes to torture him and assaulted him with wooden logs and iron rods.
The team following a trail,detained the owner of the construction house identified as Srinivasa Reddy and the contractor Subbaiah Naidu in connection with the murder .
The duo confessed the crime and said they had allegedly detained Ashwath and tortured him accusing him of stealing bike at the construction site and killed him in the melee.
They later dumped the body a 50 meters away from the scene of crime and escaped.
The police have also booked atrocity case against the assailant since Ashwath was a dalit and further investigating the case to ascertain the reason behind the murder.
