With tomato prices rising on a daily basis in Karnataka, a farmer had illegally erected an electric fence around his tomato farm resulting in the death of a cowherd from the same village after he came in contact with the fence Wednesday night.
After this incident, relatives of the cowherd, identified as Vasanth Rao (28), allegedly lynched the farm owner Aswath Rao (50) in Charakamattenahalli in Gauribidanur taluk of Chikkaballapur district.
According to the police, Rao had erected an electric fence to protect his crop since the prices of tomatoes have gone up in the past few days in the state.
