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<\/div>\nThe accused has been arrested.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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When 77-year-old VV Krishnappa shouted at a man on a motorcycle for hitting his parked two-wheeler in Bengaluru, little did he know that he was actually getting into an argument with a bike thief. The angry bike thief hit Krishnappa on the head with a stone and he died at a hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No one had seen what happened and, based on what they were told by passersby, the police assumed he had died in a hit-and-run. It was only later, when his son decided to check CCTV footage, that it turned out to be a case of murder. The accused has now been arrested.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fatal Argument<\/strong><\/p>\n On November 16, Krishnappa stepped out of his house in northwest Bengaluru’s Palace Guttahalli area to get some medicines from a shop nearby. When he returned to the parking area after buying the medicines, he saw a man on a bike hitting his two-wheeler.\u00a0<\/p>\n Krishnappa went up to the man, Sarfaraz Khan, and asked him to ride properly. This angered Khan and he picked up a stone, hit Krishnappa and fled. Passersby noticed the elderly man lying on the road, assumed he had been hit by a passing vehicle and took him to a hospital, where he died during treatment.<\/p>\n “Sarfaraz Khan is a known motorcycle thief. He had stolen a parked motorcycle and was trying to leave with it when he hit Krishnappa’s two-wheeler. An argument between them led to Krishnappa being assaulted with a stone,” said a police source.\u00a0<\/p>\n This was not known to the police at the time, who registered a hit-and-run case and informed Krishnappa’s son, Satish.\u00a0<\/p>\n Satish found the accident theory hard to believe and, after taking some time to recover from the shock, decided to check the footage from a CCTV camera in the medical shop the next day.<\/p>\n The footage revealed the assault and Satish informed the police, who then registered a murder case and arrested Khan.\u00a0<\/p>\n Deputy Commissioner of Police Shekhar T said, “Krishnappa was a resident of VG Colony. He died when he had gone to buy some medicines and a hit-and-run case had been registered initially. Checking the CCTV footage revealed murder and a fresh case was registered at Vyalikaval police station. The accused, Sarfaraz Khan, has been arrested and further investigation is on.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n