Udupi: District Superintendent of Police Hakay Akshay Machhindra said that the investigation into the incident in which the body of Hanumantha, a watermelon trader, was brought in a goods tempo at Kemmannu and thrown away in a garbage dump is underway and prima facie it does not appear to be a murder.
Speaking to mediapersons in Udupi, he said, “People have misunderstood the incident. The deceased, along with two others, were watermelon traders and were working in the APMC Market . However, on Thursday February 16, Hanumantha was drunk and sleeping in the tempo. When he didn’t wake up, he was taken away in a tempo and thrown away. But since there was no movement, people thought that he was murdered and thrown away, he said.
But in the video, it can be seen that his limbs were moving. After that, he died due to some reason, it is learnt.
