Toll plaza employee beaten to death by car passengers on Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway
A toll plaza employee was beaten to death by two car passengers around Sunday midnight in a scuffle over removing a boom barrier on the Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway, police said.
Police have identified four suspects and vowed to apprehend them by Tuesday morning.
Around 9.30 pm, a luggage auto-rickshaw took longer than expected to pay the toll at the NHAI’s Sheshagirihalli toll plaza, about 30 km west of Bengaluru.
The auto didn’t have a FASTag, and the driver was asked to pay double the toll in cash, as per the rules. Meanwhile, a Hyundai i10 headed for Bengaluru from Mysuru pulled up behind the auto. It had a FASTag and four passengers.
