Bengaluru: A 25-year-old man beheaded his friend over a financial dispute and walked into a police station with the severed head on Sunday night (Aug 21).
The incident took place at Vishwanathapura police station, Devanahalli Taluk, where a man identified as Shashikumar Narayan entered holding a bag dripping with blood.
Shashikumar, a truck driver, took the life of his friend Manjunath Muniraj, when the latter refused to return Rs. 7000 that he had borrowed.
“Manjunath had taken a loan of Rs 27,000 from me. After much pleading, he returned only Rs 20,000.Whenever I asked him for the money, he would postpone the date. I knew he would pass by the acacia grove, so I waited there. When he came by around 8.30pm, I cut off his head,” Shashikumar said in his confession.
According to Deccan Herald report, Shashikumar asked Manjunath to meet him near Uganawadi gate on Sunday afternoon, but the latter never showed up. Shashikumar then decided to go to Manjunath’s house. He took Manjunath to desolate area on the pretext of discussing the financial matter and killed him
25-year-old Manjunath, a resident of Kempathimmanahalli village had recently married and was expecting a child.
