Maddur: A man has been brutally assaulted with a machete in front of Office staff and hundreds of people at Maddur Taluk Office yesterday afternoon and it is suspected that old enmity had led to the murderous assault. People, including the Office staff, who witnessed the incident, ran helter-skelter, but a few threw stones on the accused, caught hold of him and handed him over to the Police besides shifting the critically injured person to a hospital.
While the seriously injured man has been identified as 45-year-old Channaraju of Maraliga village in Koppa hobli of Maddur taluk, the man who assaulted him is Nandan of the same village.
