Bantwal: Police teams led by SP combing near Farangipet to find missing youngster Diganth
Bantwal: The Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Yateesh N-led police team started combing Farangipet and the nearby areas starting Saturday morning, to find the 19-year-old boy Diganth, who has been missing for more than 10 days.
Diganth, who is a resident of Kidebettu near Farangipet in Ullal taluk and studying in 2nd PUC, is reported to be missing since February 25. With the boy’s mobile phone and footwear with blood stains were found on the railway track in Farangipet, the Bantwal Rural Police Station filed a missing case and are searching for Diganth.
Over the last 12 days, however, the search efforts of more than 40 police personnel have gone futile. SP Yatheesh has now stepped in for the search and taken charge of the combing operation to look for the missing boy.
The inspectors of nine police stations under the Bantwal Sub-division, police station heads and more than 100 police personnel have been searching for Diganth since Saturday morning. Thirty DAR police personnel, Railway police personnel, fire brigade staff member, staff of the Forensic Sciences Laboratory have joined and the dog squad and the drone cameras are being used for a search over a 5-km span. In addition, a search for Diganth is being conducted in the waters of River Nethravathi.
SP Yatheesh, Additional SP Rajendra, Deputy SP Vijayaprasad, Inspectors Shivakumar, Ananthapadmanabha, H Nagaraj, Sub-inspectors Nandakumar, Prasanna, Avinash, Harish, Udayaravi, Ramakrishna, Kishore, Samarth, Arjun, Muralidhara, Anand and Kaushik are among those present in the 10 teams searching for Diganth.
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NEET student hangs self in Rajasthan's Sikar
Jaipur (PTI): A student preparing for the NEET examination allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a rented room in Rajasthan's Sikar on Friday, police said.
According to the police, the student allegedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan using his sister's scarf while one sister was attending coaching classes and the other was in the bathroom.
He had appeared in the NEET UG exam 2026, which was cancelled due to paper leak, they said.
Udyog Nagar SHO Rajesh Kumar said that the deceased, identified as Pradeep Meghwal, was a resident of Kanika ki Dhani village in Jhunjhunu's Gudha Gaudji area.
He had been living in a rented room in Sikar's Jaldhari Nagar area with his two sisters while preparing for NEET over the last three years.
His elder sister later found him hanging and informed the landlord and police after bringing him down, officials said.
The SHO said the body was kept at SK Hospital mortuary, and a postmortem had not been conducted.
The student's father, Rajesh Kumar Meghwal, told police that Pradeep's NEET examination had gone well and the family was expecting him to score around 650 marks.
Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot expressed grief over the incident and linked it to anxiety among students after reports of irregularities and paper leaks in NEET 2026.
Pilot said repeated paper leak incidents and cancellation of examinations were affecting students' mental health and demanded a time-bound investigation and strict action against those responsible.
