Overview
- Officers say the SUV was driven into a compound wall, then reversed into a tree, as the victim clung to the vehicle.
- The confrontation followed drinking after a local cricket match and a fight over a cigarette lighter, according to police.
- Victim Prashanth M, a bodybuilder from Veerasandra, died at the scene; his body was moved to St. John’s Hospital.
- Hebbagodi police registered a murder FIR on a complaint from his mother, and Roshan Hegde was taken into custody after treatment for a severe tongue injury.
- The incident was first flagged as a road accident, but a dashcam review ordered by DCP M Narayana reclassified it as an intentional killing.