CP T Sunil Kumar outside the Mallya Hospital where Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Vishwanath Shetty is being treated. Pic/PTI

Karnataka Lokayukta P Vishwanath Shetty was on Wednesday stabbed multiple times and left profusely bleeding by a man who went to his office with a complaint only to be told that the case was shut, officials said. Shetty, in his early 70s, was rushed to a nearby hospital and is prima facie stated to be out of danger.