Bantwal: Tensions erupted in Kalladka and neighboring areas after Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) local leader, Mohammed Ashraf (33) was stabbed to death by unknown assailants on June 21 in broad day light at Benjanapadavu in Bantwal taluk. Ashraf was an auto rickshaw driver by profession.
The police forces from Udupi, Chikkamagaluru and other districts have asked to reach the spot by the police department immediately to prevent unpleasant happenings in the taluk. The police have asked all shop owners, commercial establishments and others to shut their routine business immediately as a precautionary measure.
According to sources, the miscreants attacked Ashraf after he dropped a passenger who had hired his auto rickshaw from Kalai to Karavali Site at Benganapadavu near Kallige on Wednesday morning.
The gang of armed miscreants who came on three motorbikes surrounded Ashraf all of a sudden when he had parked his three-wheeler in front of a house. A helpless Ashraf ran inside a house to save himself from the assailants.
However, the miscreants barged into the house and dragged him out before brutally attacking him with lethal weapons. While fleeing, the miscreants have left a sword on the floor of the house.
(Agencies)
