Hassan: Police have beefed up security near Hassan Government Hospital, where the body of Nagar Palika Parishad member Prashant Nagaraj (40), a JD(S) member who was brutally killed by a gang, has been sent for post-mortem. Is placed.
Flower, vegetable and fruit vendors and traders at Kattinkere market voluntarily shut down to protest the killing of a JD(S) member by downing the shutter. The traders’ union of the market condemned the murder.
In the Pension Mohalla police station area, a gang of four-five people brutally murdered Prashant, a council member of Ward 16, late on Wednesday night. He was going home on a two-wheeler when the gang members who came in the auto attacked him and killed him with sharp weapons.
Hassan police have constituted three days to identify and arrest the attackers and officials from neighboring districts have also been roped in for investigation and security duty.
Meanwhile, former minister HD Revanna, who visited the hospital premises, drew criticism and blamed a section of policemen for the incident.
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