Fleecing: 7 persons including home-stay attack accused held
Udupi, July 06: The local police who traced a gang of youth fleecing the people including migrating labourers of cash and ornaments during night, arrested seven persons including a main accused in Mangaluru homestay attack, on Friday.
The arrested are identified as Sreyas alias Sachchu of Kalyanpura, the main accused in the home-stay attack case, Abhijith, Vignesh, Sampath, Manish Kumar, Shashank and Nikhil Shetty. Abhishek and Harshit were absconding. All of them were between 19 and 21 years of age. Among them, Nikhil Shetty is a student, police said.
The accused were targeting the migrating labourers and locals in Udupi, Manipal, Mangaluru and surrounding areas and looting the money and other valuables after attacking them. But no one has complained against such incidents. As they were striking the victims during night time, the police were unable to trace the accused even with the help of CCTV footage. A few months back, the accused made away with cash and valuables at city bus stand. But there also, the police failed to trace the accused.
On June 16, the accused assaulted a local person at Kalyanpura shandy market and fled the scene after snatching the mobile phone. Based on a complaint regarding this, the police started investigating and identified one person. When the police interrogated him, he spilled the beans and police arrested three in Bengaluru and three in Mangaluru. The police have been searching for another two accused who were absconding. All the arrested were produced before the court which remanded them to judicial custody. They were facing many cases in Mangaluru city, Udupi and Manipal police stations, police sources said.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
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