Bengaluru: An 18-year-old daily-wage labourer was killed after unidentified miscreants picked a quarrel with him and allegedly dropped a heavy stone on his head while he was sleeping by the roadside in KJ Halli.The deceased has been identified as Mahesh, a welder, who used to sleep in different public places after finishing his day’s work. According to police, Mahesh was sleeping in Kushan Nagar around 11pm Monday when the miscreants approached him and picked a quarrel. During the confrontation, they allegedly bludgeoned his head with a stone, killing him on the spot before fleeing.Around 6am Tuesday, passersby spotted Mahesh’s body and alerted the cops. KJ Halli police rushed to the spot, inspected the scene and registered a case.Police are trying to identify the assailants using CCTV footage from nearby roads.Cleaner held for killing truck driverA 35-year-old truck cleaner has been arrested for allegedly killing a truck driver in Mallathahalli on Sept 5 in a drunken brawl. The accused, Bhimesh Prajapati alias Kanchan, was nabbed from Mumbai in Maharashtra. He had allegedly beaten Ganesh Kumar Yadav, 40, a native of Uttar Pradesh, to death with a nail-studded piece of plywood following a dispute over loading goods onto the truck from a BWSSB worksite. Kanchan has confessed to the crime, police said.
