Man beaten and hacked to death by gang on road in Solapur, India.
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A man was beaten, hacked and crushed with a stone during a daylight gang attack on a road in Solapur, India, in a killing captured on CCTV.
The victim was identified in local police-based reports as Suresh Krishna Shriram. His age was reported inconsistently in the available material, with several accounts giving 35 and one later update describing him as about 42. The killing happened on Sunday, May 3, 2026, in the Madhav Nagar area near 70 Feet Road, within the Jail Road police station limits.
The video shows a group surrounding the victim in the roadway and attacking him at close range. The footage shows blows delivered with sticks and a bladed weapon described locally as a koyta, a sickle-like chopping blade. It also shows a large stone being used during the assault. The images directly confirm the group attack, the use of handheld weapons and the victim being overwhelmed on the road.
The video does not establish the full history between the victim and the attackers, the exact motive, or the final legal status of every suspect.
Police-based reports said the victim was on his way to a gym when his motorcycle was intercepted. Several reports said five to six men were involved. The attackers were described as using sticks, a koyta and stones. Local accounts reported around 35 blows, but the accessible material did not include an autopsy report or a forensic document confirming a final wound count.
The reported motive centered on an older dispute connected to pig farming. According to information attributed to police, the victim and the accused had been in conflict for years. Reports said an earlier case from 2020, involving allegations of attempted murder or serious assault, was pending in court, and that pressure had allegedly been placed on the victim to withdraw the case.
One police-based report said the victim’s wife, identified as Lakshmi Shriram, filed the complaint. That account said the accused had allegedly feared punishment in the earlier case and attacked the victim because the case had not been withdrawn.
Police officials were reported to have acted quickly after the killing. Early updates said five suspects were detained within about an hour and one suspect remained at large. A later update said a case had been registered against six people under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Arms Act and listed six accused as arrested. Because the later report also contained a separate passage saying five had been detained and one remained wanted, the available record is not fully consistent on the custody status at that point.
The names reported in connection with the case included Vijay Shriram, Rohit Reddy, Subhash Sagda, Karan Shriram, Sumit Shriram and Rahul Reddy. Some local reports gave variant spellings for two of the names. No final court finding was available in the material reviewed.
Police-based reports also said both the victim and some of the accused had earlier criminal cases. One account attributed to a senior police officer said more than 10 cases had previously been registered against the victim, including theft, assault and robbery-related offenses. Those prior allegations do not change the central recorded fact of the killing shown in the CCTV footage.
The confirmed core of the case is clear: Suresh Shriram was attacked by a group on a public road in Solapur, the assault was recorded on video, the attackers used sticks, a koyta and a stone, and police treated the case as murder. The exact final custody status of all accused, the forensic wound count and the later court outcome were not confirmed in the accessible record.
News story written by DarkGore.
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