Karnataka man hires contract killers to murder family but they kill guests

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According to the police, four people were killed as assailants mistook them for original targets. 

Karnataka Police claimed they have cracked the April 19 murder of four people in Gadag town, about 415 km north of state capital Bengaluru. The police arrested eight suspects, including the alleged kingpin of the incompletely executed plot, Vinayak Bakale, who is the half-brother of one of the victims, Karthik Bakale.

According to a report in the Indian Express, police said a dispute over property between Vinayak and his father Prakash Bakale became the reason for the “contract killing”. In the said contract killing, Karthik’s three relatives were killed after being misidentified.

What happened?

According to reports, Karthik, Parashuram Hadimani (55), his wife Lakshmi (45), and their daughter Akanksha (16), were hacked to death in the early hours on April 19 at Bakales’ house in Dasara Oni in Gadag town. 

Police said the Hadimani family had come to attend Karthik’s engagement ceremony and they got killed as the accused individuals presumed them to be Bakales.

Karthik, 27, was the son of Gadag-Betgeri city municipal council vice-president Prakash Bakale and his second wife Sunanda; and the alleged kingpin, Vinayak, 31, police said, is Prakash’s son from his first wife who allegedly hired contract killers to kill the three (Karthik, Prakash and Sunanda), IG (Northern Range) Vikash Kumar said, Indian Express reported. 

Apart from Vinayak, others arrested have been identified as Fairoz (29), Jishan (24), Sahil Ashpak Khaji (19), Sohail Ashpak Khaji (19), Sultan Jilani Sheikh (23), Mahesh Jagannath Salunke (21), and Waheed Liyaqat Bepart (21).

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Police said the accused were arrested from Maharashtra, Goa, and Karnataka. 

“Vinayak had sold some properties without consulting his father, leading to differences,” a police officer said.

(With inputs from agencies)

Mukul Sharma

Mukul Sharma is a New Delhi-based multimedia journalist covering geopolitical developments in and beyond the Indian subcontinent. Deeply interested in the affairs

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