A popular vaastu expert Chandrashekhar Angadi, popularly known as Chandrashekhar Guruji, was on Tuesday, July 5, stabbed to death by two assailants in full public view at a hotel lobby in Karnataka’s Hubballi. The brutal attack was caught on CCTV, and the visuals show that the two men approached the vaastu expert in the lobby of a private hotel where he was seated, sought his blessings, and began to stab him.
The two men had approached Angadi claiming to be his followers, and then suddenly began to stab him. Angadi tried to escape, but he is seen falling to the ground, bleeding profusely. The two men did not stop, and continued to stab him. People who were seated around the lobby got up and tried to stop the two men, but they threatened the passers-by, seemingly telling them to stay away. They stabbed him multiple times before fleeing from the spot.
A seriously injured Angadi was rushed to hospital but he succumbed to injuries, and his body has been sent for post-mortem to the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) in Hubballi. The police have launched an investigation to find out the motive of the murder.
Chandrashekhar Guruji was from Bagalkote and had been staying at the Hubballi hotel for the past few days. The police told the media that a case has been registered and an ACP rank officer will probe the case.
“He has been staying at the President Hotel. Someone called him and asked him to come downstairs to the lobby. Then the two men came to take his blessings and assaulted him with knives. We shifted him to the hospital but he succumbed there due to serious injuries. A case has been registered and we have taken the case seriously. An ACP rank officer will probe the case. We have formed teams to nab the accused and we will take them into custody soon,” Labhu Ram, Commissioner of Police, Hubballi-Dharwad, told the media.
Speaking to TV9, Mahesh Angadi, a relative of Chandrashekar Guruji, said that the vaastu exponent was engaged in contract work in Mumbai from 1988 to 1995, after completing his civil engineering degree. He later went to Singapore for training in vaastu and returned to set up offices in Mumbai. He later also opened offices in Bengaluru, Hubballi and other places employing hundreds of people. Angadi had four siblings, two brothers and two sisters. He is survived by his wife and a daughter.