Manish Shetty was killed in Udupi district to avenge rowdy’s murder: Cops

BENGALURU: Bar owner Manish Shetty was shot and hacked to death in retaliation to the killing of rowdy Kishan Hegde in Udupi district recently, police said.
Hegde was hacked to death in broad daylight in Hiriyadka on September 24. Udupi police had arrested five persons in connection with Hegde’s death. Hegde was an associate of fugitive gangster Vicky Shetty. “The accused have confessed that they eliminated Shetty to avenge Hegde’s murder.They said Shetty had financially helped Hegde’s killers,” a police officer said.
Shetty was attacked by four bikeborne men in front of his Duet Bar, off Brigade Road, on Thursday night.
MN Anucheth, deputy commissioner of police (central), said it was a revenge murder and probe is under way. “Vicky Shetty had directed his associates to kill Shetty,” an officer said.
Hours after Shetty’s murder, a man, ‘Vicky’ called a TV channel and that he had killed him. Shetty’s suspected killers — Shashikiran alias Munna, Nitya, Ganesha and Akshay — were arrested on Saturday. Probe revealed all four are Vicky’s associates.