Bengaluru: The Hosakote police have arrested a 32-year-old man who killed four innocent people in a span of three months after he was released from the jail.
The accused has been identified as Soma alias Aslam, who had been hiding in Kolar district and was recently nabbed near police quarters.
According to the police, on October 23, around 4 am, Balaraj informed the Hosakote police that a man murdered two people by throwing a boulder on their head while they were sleeping on a footpath near KEB circle.
The police rushed to the spot and found two bodies, who were later identified as Ramesh, 34 and his wife Umma, 35.
On December 15, a man identified as Narayanachari was murdered and his head was smashed by a hollow block while he was asleep near a construction site in Hosakote police station limits. On November 9, in Andhra Pradesh’s Punganur police station limits a similar incident had taken place where a man identified as Shankar alias dance master was murdered in a similar fashion. The Hosakote police who were on lookout for the accused have tracked him down and produced him before the court.
