Saral Vastu exponent Chandrashekhar Angadi alias Chandrashekhar Guruji was stabbed to death at a hotel in Hubballi in north Karnataka on Tuesday. The incident took place at the reception area of the hotel and the murder has been caught on CCTV. The two accused, identified as Mahantesh and Manjunath, were seen fleeing the scene after the murder. They were arrested from Ramdurga, Belagavi.


The two miscreants posed as devotees and went near Chandrashekhar Guruji before stabbing him multiple times, killing him on the spot. The body has been shifted to KIMS Hospital in Hubballi. Visuals showed two people repeatedly stabbing him at the reception area of the hotel.


"Some people called him to lobby area of the hotel where he was staying. One person wished him and suddenly started stabbing him. Due to multiple injuries, by the time he was shifted to hospital, he was dead. We have registered a case and are searching for accused," ANI quoted Police Commissioner Labhu Ram, DCP (law and order), as saying.


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Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai called Chandrashekhar Guruji's murder "heinous". "I have spoken to Police Commissioner Labhu Ram to nab the culprits seen in the video. Police is already on it," he said.


Dr Chandrashekhar Guruji hails from Bagalkot. He graduated as a civil engineer from Basaveshwar Engineer College in Bagalkot.


After completing his engineering in 1988, he worked as a contractor in Mumbai for six years and then left for Singapore to study vaastu shastra (science of architecture in traditional Indian system). He returned to Mumbai and started his first vaastu shastra office in the city.


As the demand for his services increased, he opened offices in Bengaluru, Hubballi and in several other cities in Karnataka.


He had one daughter from his first wife. After the demise of his first wife, Dr Chandrashekar married again. He is survived by a daughter, two brothers and two sisters.


Dr Chandrashekhar is said to have a call centre in Mumbai where hundreds of employees advice people on vaastu.