Bengaluru: A drunken brawl over a cigarette lighter allegedly cost a 33-year-old man his life after his friend deliberately ran him over with a car on Sunday, January 25, in Karnataka‘s Bengaluru.
The deceased was identified as Prashanth M, a bodybuilder, who resided at Veerasandra, Bengaluru.
The incident occurred on Sunday evening after an argument between Prashanth and Roshan Hegde (37), a software engineer, during a cricket tournament.
The duo were consuming beer on an open ground behind a mall in Electronics City after the tournament when, allegedly, a quarrel broke out over a cigarette lighter. The argument soon turned violent, with both men attacking each other using beer bottles, during which Hegde sustained a cut on his tongue.
Following the scuffle, Hegde fled the spot in his car. However, Prashanth allegedly chased his car and clung to its door as it sped along the Veerasandra-Kammasandra Road.
Police said Hegde deliberately accelerated the vehicle, first ramming it into a tree and then crashing it into a compound wall, fatally injuring Prashanth.
The police initially received a call to their emergency helpline number reporting a road accident.
However, during a preliminary investigation, it was revealed that the crash was intentional and amounted to murder, a senior police officer said.
The entire incident was captured on the vehicle’s dash camera, which helped the police track down the suspect.
Hegde was arrested in connection with the incident by Hebbagodi police, and further investigation is underway, police said.
(With inputs from PTI)
