Pramesh S Jain & Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
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30-year-old Rowdy-Sheeter was hacked to death by a gang of armed men in weavers colony in Anekal on Friday.
The deceased has been identified as Manjunath alias Mental Manja.The police detained few suspects for questioning .
Senior officer told reporters the deceased Manja and the accused are habitual offenders having multi criminal cases pending them.
It was found that Manja was involved in a case registered in Anekal police station limits a six months ago where Vijay was witness .
Manja used to harass VIjay not to depose before the court against him.He had even threatenbed Vijay amny times and on Friday he in order to create fear confronted Vijay and beat him up as warning.
Meanwhile Shashi kumar,a close associate of Vijay came to know about this and along with his associates rushed to the rescue.
The accused later armed with weapons ganged up and attacked Manja and stabbed him repeatedly,killing him on the spot.
The Anekal police rushed to the spot and track down few suspects involved in the murder for further investigations .
The deceased Manja had eight criminal cases against him while the accused had two cases each pending against them.
