India, Feb. 15 -- Former Goa legislator Lavoo Suryaji Mamledar died after he was struck at least five times by an auto rickshaw driver following a scuffle over a minor road accident in Belagavi on Saturday afternoon, police said. He was 69.

Belagavi deputy superintendent of police (DySP) Rohan Jagadish told HT that the accused auto driver has been identified as Shakeel Sanadi and he was taken into custody.

"The former legislator's car brushed against Sanadi's auto on Khade Bazaar road for which the autorickshaw driver chased him and attacked him fatally on the premises of the lodge he booked," the police officer said.

Quoting eyewitnesses, Jagadish said that Sanadi repeatedly struck Mamledar's right cheek during the altercation which t...