Parmesh S Jain special corespondent
A 27-year-old youth was hacked to death by an armed group close to his house in Marasuru near Anekal in the early hours of Sunday.
The deceased Vijayakumar was involved in a murder case of a man identified as Manoj alias bablu in 2017 and came out of bail seven months ago.
On Sunday morning at around 4 am when he was sleeping at home he received a call and came out to attend only to confront a group of men waiting for him .
In the pretext of talk,they took him a few yards away before hitting him on his head with a wooden plank.
While jayakumar collapsed on the ground, the accused attacked him with lethal weapon and fled leaving him dead in a pool of blood
Passers by few minutes later found the body was informed Surya city police who rushed to the spot and conducted investigation.
The police suspected that old rivalry was the reason behind the murder. The assailants wanted to avenge the murder of Manoj .
Based on the last phone call for jayakumar the police have gathered some clues about the assailants.
This is the second murder reported in Anekal since Saturday .
