When a BJP Yuva Morcha leader in Karnataka was hacked to death, his killers were confident they had gotten away with it. They had not counted on one thing: the prime killer’s audacity to record every threat call he made handed investigators the evidence that would send him and his five associates to death row.

Koppal district, 300 km from Bengaluru , was still in the news owing to the 2025 Hampi gang rape and murder of a tourist, when it hit the headlines once again for the wrong reason, following another gruesome murder.

It was October 7, 2025, when Gangavathi traffic police sub-inspector Sharadamma Dhoddane was on her night rounds when she received the news of an accident.…