Mangaluru : Abdul Basheer, 47, who brutally attacked by four persons on late night of January 3 to avenge the death of Hindu activist Deepak Rao in Katipalla, succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital on Sunday.

According to sources, Basheer had multiple injuries due to severe attack on Wednesday night. Several surgeons treated him and multiple surgeries were conducted. However, he was declared dead around 8am.

Soon after the death announcement a large number crowd started to gather at the mortuary. People representatives: U T Khader, minister for food and civil supplies and MLA B A Mohiuddin Bava and former minister Krishna J Palemar visited the mortuary. However, crowd asked Palemar to leave the place, who was trying to speak to media. Crowd shouted slogans against him for utilising mortuary for political issues.

Abdul Basheer Buried in Kuloor Masjid his son who is in Abu Dhabi arrived from Dubai to Mangaluru at 6pm for his fathers to do final rites.

Basheer is survived by wife and three sons and a daughter. Eldest son is married, daughter is pursuing her PU and younger son is class 8 student.

Meanwhile, district administration has announced Rs 10 lakh compensation to victims’ family.

Police had arrested four people in connection with murder on Saturday.