Bengaluru, Sep 11 (UNI) In a barbaric incident, three priests of a Muzarai temple in Mandya town were killed allegedly by miscreants and decamped after throwing an offertory box fixed in the Arakeshwara shrine on late Thursday night.
According to Mandya police, the priests who were brutally done to death by the miscreants, were identified as Ganesh (35), Prakash (36) and Anand (33), who were guarding the temple.
The gory incident had shaken the residents of the Mandya town and the police had launched a massive man-hunt to arrest the culprits.
All the three priests, were found murdered in the foreyard of the temple, the sources added.
