A councillor of Ramanagaram City Municipal Council was brutally hacked to death in the town on Tuesday afternoon, by a gang of yet unidentified miscreants.
A senior police official suspects that the murder was a revenge crime by the younger brother of one Abdul Jabbar, murdered in 2008 allegedly by the councillor.
The deceased councillor, Nizam Pasha (35), a resident of Ramanagaram, was a councillor from the thirteenth ward of the City Municipal Council and a member of the Congress party. Nizam Pasha was on his bike going to meet his friends, when a gang of assailants obstructed his way and hacked him to death with lethal weapons before fleeing from the spot. The incident occurred around 3:45 p.m., a senior police official said.
Nizam Pasha was a known rowdy-sheeter in Ramanagaram police station and was booked under the Goonda Act in 2011. There are at least six cases including two murder cases pending against him.
A relative of the deceased, Younis Pasha, in his complaint to the police has alleged that another notorious rowdy element Samad and his associates murdered Nizam Pasha. An official said that Nizam Pasha is the prime accused in the 2008 murder case of one Abdul Jabbar, who is the elder brother of Samad, now suspected of Nizam’s murder.
