Former rowdy-sheeter hacked to death in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: A 35-year-old former rowdy-sheeter was brutally hacked to death by a gang of six near his house in Anekal on Bengaluru’s southern outskirts on Tuesday night, the police said.

The victim, Venkatesh, a former rowdy-sheeter in the Sarjapur police station limits, was attacked by two bike-borne assailants wielding billhook machetes. Four others, who were in a car, assisted them.

The attack took place around 9.30 pm while Venkatesh was speaking on the phone just 50 meters from his house in Dommasandra. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, but doctors declared him dead on arrival.

Venkatesh, who was married with two children, had moved away from crime and was running a small-time real estate business. The police suspect the murder could be linked to either a business dispute or an old rivalry, though the exact motive is yet to be established.

The Sarjapur police have registered a case under BNS Section 103 (murder) and are analysing CCTV footage that captured the suspects’ movements. "We are tracking them," an officer said.

A senior police official told DH that while Venkatesh had a rowdy sheet against him at the Sarjapur police station, it was closed after he distanced himself from criminal activities.