Mangalore : Pandeshwar police who have achieved a breakthrough in the investigations into the case of the murder of Vikranth Shetty (27) at Morgansgate recently, have arrested four persons  including the prime accused Kanduka Sharan.

It has been learnt that the police have also seized the Scorpio used by the accused in executing the murder plan. It is believed that Vikranth was hacked to death in a retaliatory act to an assault on Kanduka Sharan in 2006.

It may be recalled here that Vikranth who was an employee in a recreation club  near Jyothi was intercepted and murdered by the assailants  near the railway bridge a Shanthigudde. Vikranth was a resident of Shanthigudde.