A 50-yr-previous enchancment labourer was allegedly tortured and crushed to demise over accusations of A motorcycle theft in Ramamurthy Nagar on Saturday.
The deceased has been recognized as Ashwath, a resident of Muneshwara Nagar. The police said that he was lacking for the previous three days and was found lifeless on the roadside Shut to an beneath-enchancment house the place he was working in Hoysala Nagar.
Bheemashankar Guled, DCP, South East Division, said that preliminary probe revealed that the assailant had tied the palms and legs of Ashwath to torture him and assaulted him with picket logs and iron rods.
The police, following a path, detained the proprietor of The enchancment house, recognized as Srinivasa Reddy, and the contractor, Subbaiah Naidu, in Reference to the homicide .
The duo allegedly detained Ashwath and tortured him accusing him of stealing A motorcycle from The enchancment website and killed him Inside the melee. They later dumped the physique 50 metres away from the scene of crime and escaped, the police said.
The police have furtherly booked an atrocity case in the direction of the assailants as Ashwath was a Dalit and are further investigating the case.
