Bengaluru: A drunken argument over a cigarette lighter allegedly turned fatal after a 33-year-old bodybuilder, Prashanth M, was deliberately run over by his friend in Electronics City on Sunday, January 25.
Police identified the accused as Roshan Hegde (37), a software engineer. The incident occurred after a cricket tournament, during which the two men were consuming beer at an open ground behind a mall.
According to investigators, a quarrel broke out over a cigarette lighter and quickly escalated into violence. Both men allegedly attacked each other with beer bottles, during which Hegde sustained a cut injury on his tongue.
Following the scuffle, Hegde fled the spot in his car. Prashanth reportedly chased the vehicle and clung to its door as it sped along the Veerasandra–Kammasandra Road. Police said Hegde deliberately accelerated, first ramming the car into a tree and then crashing it into a compound wall, fatally injuring Prashanth.
Initially reported as a road accident, police later determined through preliminary investigation that the act was intentional and amounted to murder. Crucially, the entire sequence was captured on the car’s dash camera, which helped police track down and identify the accused.
A case has been registered, and further investigation is underway.
