Mangaluru: Eight Hindutva activists arrested for murder of Prathap Poojary

Mangaluru, Feb 22: Eight youths have been arrested by the Mangaluru city police in connection with the murder of Prathap Poojary at Maroli on wee hours of Sunday on February 19. They have recovered bike, lethal weapons used for the crime from them.

The arrested have been identified as Sagar Poojary, 21, resident of Veeranagar; Mithun, 25, resident of Maroli; Kaushik, 26, resident of Veeranagar; Thilakraj Shetty, 28, Kapigudde, Akashabhavan; Nikhil Shetty, 19, resident of Kodikere; Manish Poojary, 20, resident of SEZ Colony, Kodikere; Shivaraj, 26, resident of Madoor, Kotekar and Rajesh, 21, resident of Kumpanamajalu house, Farangipet.

According to police accused, who also belong to Saffron fringe were picked up from a city lodge and Kodikere and produced before Court.

It can be recalled that on February 19, Pratap Poojari, 26 was killed on the spot and another person Manikanta was severely injured. They were attacked by a gang of 10 goons with machetes at Niddel around 1 am. While Pratap died on the spot itself, Manikanta, who escaped the attack with injuries is being hospitalised.

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