Mandya, May 25 -- A 26-year-old man was brutally murdered in K. Honnalagere village of Maddur taluk following a drunken altercation that erupted over a trivial remark inside a local bar, officials said on Saturday. Three individuals have been arrested in connection with the crime.

The victim, identified as Sunil, who had been married for just six months, became the unintended casualty of an attack meant for someone else, according to Mandya Superintendent of Police VJ Shobharani.

The incident unfolded on May 19 inside Deepa Bar, where the prime accused, Nishanth, a resident of Ajjahalli village, was drinking while waiting to intimidate a man named Ashok, from whom he had borrowed Rs 5 lakh. Police said that Nishanth had kept a machete i...