Praveen Nettar, a BJP Morcha worker in Karnataka, was stabbed in the Dakshina Kannada district on Tuesday. Tension prevailed in the district with instances of stone-pelting and police lathicharge being reported. 

The Sangh Parivar has called for a bandh in Puttur, Kadaba and Sullia taluk on Wednesday in protest against the murder.

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The BJP youth worker had on June 29 post in support of Kanhaiyalal, the tailor beheaded in Rajasthan’s Udaipur last month. The 31-year-old on Facebook wrote about a “poor tailor” being beheaded and threats to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

Kanhaiyalal was beheaded in Udaipur by two two cleaver-wielding men. The accused recorded a video admitting to the killing. 

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There is no official statement on whether Nettaru’s killing is linked to the Udaipur tailor. 

Nettar was hacked to death in front of his broiler shop in Bellare by three bike-borne miscreants. 

A resident of Nettaru in Bellare in Dakshina Kannada district, he was hacked to death, when he was heading home after closing his shop. “He tried to escape and ran but he fell down after a blow on his head,” police said.

Local residents immediately informed the police, which rushed to the spot and took Nettar to the hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead.

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A bus plying from Puttur to Mangaluru was damaged in the stone-pelting incident at Bolwar.

Meanwhile, the body of the deceased BJP worker was taken in a procession in an ambulance to Nettaru by activists of Sangh organisations. The last rites of the youth leader will be performed at his native place Nettaru.

Condemning the killing, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday assured that the culprits involved in the “heinous act” will be arrested soon and be punished as per law.

“The heinous murder of our party worker Praveen Nettar from Sullia in Dakshina Kannada is condemnable. Those involved in the heinous act will be arrested soon and will be punished as per law,” Bommai said in a tweet.