Kanakapura : Kodihalli police have arrested five   persons in connection with the case of murder of a  young man over a previous enmity. They have been produced before the court and remanded to judicial custody.

The accused were absconding ever since they hacked to death Raja, son of Huchchappa of Doddakabballi village in the taluk on May 15. The Kodiahalli police led by Sub-Inspector Mahadeva Swamy who acted on a tip off, arrested the five at the bus stop at Hunasanahalli located on Tamil Nadu borders.