{"id":304129,"date":"2018-10-15T05:23:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304129"},"modified":"2018-10-15T05:23:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:23:28","slug":"bengaluru-school-principal-hacked-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bengaluru-school-principal-hacked-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: School Principal hacked to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-299838 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/lynched-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-487x420.jpg 487w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A gang of six-member on Sunday hacked a school principal to death in front of his students for whom he was holding a special class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident took place in Havanur Public School in suburban Agrahara Dasarahalli in Bengaluru, Karnataka, where principal Ranganath (60) was holding classes of students when the gang barged into the classroom and hacked him to death, said the police. The gang later fled the spot in a car.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">One of the killers was later nabbed by police from Mahalaxmi Layout area after a tip-off. However, the police had to fire at him to subdue him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The killer suffered a leg injury and was taken to the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the police, a land dispute involving the school building to be the reason behind the killing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Further investigation is underway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gang of six-member on Sunday hacked a school principal to death in front of his students for whom he was holding a special class. The incident took place in Havanur Public School in suburban Agrahara Dasarahalli in Bengaluru, Karnataka, where principal Ranganath (60) was holding classes of students when the gang barged into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[1343,5565,1430,5566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304130,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304129\/revisions\/304130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}