Mangaluru: Two days after the death of Tulu film actor and rowdysheeter Surendra Bantwal in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district, another rowdysheeter, Umar Farooq, was hacked to death on Friday evening in Kalladka.
Preliminary reports from the police department in Dakshina Kannada hint at the murder having been committed by a close associate of Farooq’s. Police sources alleged that Farooq’s friend, with whom the victim’s relationship had soured, was suspected to have committed the crime.
The murder was allegedly committed near Bodogi, Melkar in Bantwal taluk around 5.20pm, said police. Bike-borne assailants, as yet unidentified, stopped Farooq’s vehicle and attacked him with lethal weapons. The injuries he sustained proved fatal and Farooq allegedly died on the spot.
There were many cases against Farooq, including one for his alleged involvement in a communal riot in Kalladka reported a few years ago.
No breakthrough yet in Tulu actor’s murder
On the other hand, police are yet to make significant headway in their probe into the murder of Surendra Bantwal, who was killed on Wednesday. Sources in the team investigating the murder said that a close aide of the actor was one of the suspects. “But we have not been able to trace him. He has gone into hiding after the murder. It was a meticulously planned murder,” said one of the officers involved in the probe.
An audio clip wherein a person claimed responsibility for the murder of the Tulu actor had gone viral.