Two Second hand bike dealers arrested for killing his friend over illicit affair

Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar

The Bagalagunte police on Thursday arrested two second hand bike dealers who bludgeoned their friend to death over illicit affair .

The accused have been identified as Kiran,32,and Akhay,31 while the deceased Hemanth,24,was working as steward at a hotel.

Senior officer told reporters,The accused and deceased are friends and Hemanth used to visit their house often.

During couple of visit Hemanth had taken his colleague Mariswamy to Kiran’s house .

Mariswamy later had an affair with Kiran’s wife Hema and they eloped .

Enraged Kiran blamed Hemanth for this and on February 4, called him for talks in the melee he buldgeoned him to death.

Passers-by noticed Hemanth and took him to hospital where he succumbed the next day.The Bagalgunte police took up the investigation based on the complaint by deceased mother,and found the involvement of Kiran and Akshay and arrested them.