India, May 5 -- The Mangaluru City Police on Saturday said that Adil Mehroof, brother of murder victim Fazil, allegedly paid Rs.5 lakh, Rs.3 lakh in advance, to a group of men to kill 32-year-old Suhas Shetty, The News Minute reported.

The police said the murder was planned in retaliation for an earlier attempted attack on one of the accused by Suhas and his associates, the report added

Mangaluru Police Commissioner Anupam Agrawal, addressing the media on May 3, said the crime was "partly motivated by revenge" and ruled out any communal motive. "There is no evidence so far to suggest that the act was communal or linked to any banned organisation," he said.

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