The murder case on Tuesday morning was apprehended by the city police of Bengaluru as actor Darshan Thoogudeepa and nine accomplices.
Renukaswamy, a youth from Chittadurga, had been murdered and the suspect’s arrest in connection with this murder, said police.
Swami recently got married and worked as an assistant at a medical shop in Chittadurga.
According to him, “A cinema actor along with his associates were impounded for investigation into allegations that they were involved in a murder; we recovered the corpse from a drain at Kamaksi Palia west of the city.”
This man had been abducted from Chitradurga and then killed in Kamakshipalya which is in the western part of Bangalore. There was evidence that he had been physically injured before being thrown into the pit.