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Four persons were arrested on Wednesday in Karnataka's Suratkal town for the alleged murder of a 32-year-old man, whom the opposition BJP claimed to be a "Hindu activist". "The suspects were arrested when they were trying to escape after attacking the victim - Deepak Rao - at Katipalla in the town," Dakishna Kannada Superintendent of Police S.K. Reddy told IANS. Rao, a sales executive with a mobile phones distributor, in Mangaluru, about 350km from the Bengaluru, was riding a motorbike at Katipalla when the accused waylaid and assaulted him with a machete between 1.30-2 p.m.