Tumkur, February 24: Five persons were nabbed today for their alleged involvement in the Chikkanayakanahalli carnage in the district in which five members of a family, including two children, were burnt alive after their house was set ablaze.
The accused, Nagesh (25), Mathava Thimmaiah (75), his sons Chandrashkhara and Basavaraj (both around 40) and Shivanna (50), brother of Thimmaiah were arrested last night, Superintendent of Police P S Harsha told PTI.
All the five were produced before a local court today and remanded to five days police custody, he said.
Nagesh is the son of one of the deceased, Krishnappa, a member of the family that was charred to death in the incident, Harsha said.
—-PTI