Nanjangud: In a ghastly incident, a 47-year-old man was brutally murdered by smashing his head with a boulder near Hadinaarukalu Mantapa close to Srikanteshwara Swamy Temple in the town, yesterday.
The deceased has been identified as Bangaru, a vegetable merchant who used to supply to Tamil Nadu and a resident of Haradanahalli village in Chamarajanagar. The Police said that the deceased had visited Nanjangud to attend to a wedding during which the group of unidentified people waylaid him near the mantap and murdered him by smashing his head with a boulder before fleeing the spot.
