On Monday night, a cable operator was stabbed to death by his friends following an argument at Byrappa Block in Thyagaraja Nagar. The deceased was identified as Puneeth Kumar, 25, was a resident of the same block.
According to Police at around 9 pm, Kumar was having tea at a bakery when his friends Ravi, Abhi and Dinesh picked a quarrel with him, took out a knife and poked him in the abdomen and ran away.
An injured Kumar managed to ride back home on his bike and was immediately taken to a nearby private hospital. Later on he was shifted to Victoria Hospital where he died late in the night, police said.
A case has been registered by Thyagarajanagar police and have launched a manhunt for the suspects.
During Investigations it was revealed that Ravi, Abhi and Dinesh were friends of Kumar and they had developed differences over some issue, a couple of days ago. Police suspect that the three might have came up with a plan to eliminate Kumar as a revenge.