ANF personnel dies of heart attack
Incident happened during combing operation against naxals
Sullia, June 16: An Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) personnel who had been to combing operation against suspected naxals died of cardiac arrest amidst the forest at Madappadi village in the Kilar Male reserve forest in Dakshina Kannada- Kodagu border on Saturday.
The personnel is identified as Rangaswamy (40) of Bhadravati. He was serving in Karkala ANF unit. His family was settled in Bengaluru. He is survived by wife and a daughter. Another daughter had died last year in an accident.
Four teams of ANF force and Anti-Naxal Squad (ANS) were jointly engaged in combing operation as there was news that suspected naxals visited a house at Hadikal in the taluk on Thursday night. Karkala and Bhagamandala unit ANF and ANS teams comprising 70 personnel started their combing operation from today morning.
When the personnel were combing at Kotegudde, just 6 km from the place where the suspected naxals visited, Rangaswamy collapsed due to heart attack at around 4 am. The ANF personnel conducted the first aid, but in vain. Later, the personnel carried the body of Rangaswamy from Mayilakote to the residence of Puttanna Gowda for almost 2 km amidst the forest. Later, his body was transported in the vehicle and brought to Sullia KVG hospital.
Suspected naxals have said to be visited the farm house of Jayaram HB of Hadikal in Madappadi village in the forest area. Later, combing operation was intensified. All the four teams were pressed into action in Kodagu-Dakshina Kannada border area like Kadamakallu, Sampaje, Hadikallu and Kotegudde. Rangaswamy was in the team which has gone to Kotegudde area.
As it was a thick forest and there was leech menace, the ANF personnel found it difficult to carry the body down the hill. Knowing the incident, hundreds of people gathered at Madappadi village.
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Gold jewelry worth Rs 63 lakh stolen from family traveling by train from Mumbai to Udupi
Manipal: A family that was traveling from Mumbai to Udupi to attend a wedding function recently lost 900 grams of gold jewelry worth Rs 63 lakh during the train journey.
Avinash, who is a resident of Mumbai, left for Udupi with his family by train on November 15. The family carried four suitcases with clothes and jewelry, but reportedly only zipped up the suitcases and did not lock them. On November 16, they got down at the Indrali Railway Station in the taluk and traveled to Manipura village near Katapady. The same evening, the family received a shock when they opened two bags, only to find that the gold jewelry weighing 900 grams and worth Rs 63 lakh kept in the bags was missing.
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They filed a complaint with Manipal Police, suspecting that the jewelry was stolen at a stretch between Panvel and Kankavali railway stations in Maharashtra.
Manipal Police, who registered a case based on the family’s complaint, are investigating. Police sources have said that, as the criminal act was committed in Maharashtra, the case might be handed over to the concerned police officers, for further investigation.
