A 41-year-old manager, Bheemesh Babu from Chitradurga, was beated to death with a dumbbell by his collegue. What began as a minor disagreement over switching off lights at a workplace in Karnataka's Bengaluru snowballed into a major conflict with later escalated into a murder.

The incident took place at a rented office of Data Digital Bank in Govindarajanagar police limits. According to the police, the victim had sensitivity to bright light and would often ask collegues to switch them off when not required. Around 1 a.m. on November 3, he asked his coworker, Somala Vamsi (24), to switch off the lights.

The argument soon turned into a major conflict and in a fit of rage, Vamshi allegedly threw chilli powder at Babu before repeatedly hitting him with a dumbbell. After Babu collapsed, Vamsh

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