Mysuru: Moodabidiri Prashanth murder case accused was hacked to death by Prashanth’s close associate at Mysuru Central Jail on Thursday.

Mustafa Kavoor (28) is the deceased person. He was killed by Prashanth’s close associate Kiran Shetty who was also a jail inmate of Mustafa at Mysuru jail.

Mustafa was stabbed to death and later he was rushed to nearby hospital by the police. He breathed his last in the hospital due to severe bleeding.

It is suspected that this might be a vengeance of Prashanth’s murder who was killed in 2015 at Moodabidiri.

A case has been registered at Mandi police station.