bangalore police have identified the two assailants who hacked a priest to death for courting a girl from another caste on the outskirts of the city late on saturday the girls brother suresh a computer operator with a share broking company and his close friend anand a lorry driver allegedly murdered sandeep and assaulted his father sringesh mother sarojamma and sister archana at the victims residence in bhuvaneshwarinagar talaghattapura police said deputy sp ramanagaram district mg ramachandrappa told toi that a special police team formed to nab the culprits had tracked the duo to tirupati the breakthrough was achieved by tracing their mobile calls they will be arrested and brought to the city soon we are waiting for andhra pradesh police to help us arrest the duo the culprits will be brought here any time he said sringesh and sandeep were working as priests at a ganesha temple on ullal main road nagarabhavi near kengeri satellite town sandeep was in love with sureshs sister revathi both families had opposed their relationship but the couple was determined to tie the knot repeated warnings from revathis family to sandeep to keep away from her were of no avail both families were trying to get the boy and girl married within their castes police said past saturday midnight sarojamma woke up to a womans cries and opened the door when two assailants walked in and beat her up her husband and daughter too were attacked the assailants then slit sandeeps throat before fleeing an hour before the incident sureshs entire family had left their home