Kaniyoor: Bodies of two youths found days after their car plunged into water body
Kadaba, Jul 12: The bodies of two youths, who were missing after their car fell into a rivulet near Kaniyoor on the Manjeshwar-Subramania state highway on July 9, were found early on Tuesday, police said.
The deceased have been identified as Dhanush (26) of Kundadka and his relative Dhananjaya (21), both residents of Vittal in Bantwal taluk.
The car had been retrieved from the rivulet a few hours after the accident, but the passengers were missing.
Despite intense search operations held over the last two days, the bodies could not be found.
Sources said one body was found at the nearby Marakkada rivulet on a wooden log, 200 metres away from the accident spot, the other was found around 100 metres from where the car fell into the rivulet.
The duo had gone missing after their car plunged into the overflowing rivulet at Baithadka near Kaniyoor in Kadaba taluk of Dakshina Kannada district on July 9 night.
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Confident we are going to win Kerala: Shashi Tharoor
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday expressed confidence in the victory of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala, saying the Congress-led alliance will win more than 75 seats out of the total 140 in the state.
Tharoor, who hails from Kerala, said he was not surprised to see the results of the exit polls, most of which predicted a victory for the UDF that has been out of power for 10 years in the state.
"We have been on the ground. I have campaigned in 59 constituencies across 12 districts out of 14. I was very confident we are going to win.
"Everything that I have picked up from not just my party colleagues and workers but also from other observers, media and others have always convinced me that we were going to score a comfortable win of above 75 seats. And all the (exit) polls have confirmed the same thing," he told reporters here.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP said he was not surprised to see the results of the exit polls but in general he was not a big fan of exit polls in India.
"Because ours is not purely a homogenous society. We have to take into account gender issue, caste issue, class issue, regional disparities. You never get a convincingly large enough sample to give an accurate poll and now there is the additional complication that we have heard about in West Bengal this year that many people are unwilling to answer the questions of the pollsters," he said.
The Congress leader said normally, it used to be below 10 per cent that people said that they would not answer.
"Even if you are a reputable exit pollster, in Bengal, one polling company has said 60 per cent of people refused to answer. So, what is the worth of a poll where 60 per cent of your respondents have not answered," he said.
Several exit polls on Wednesday predicted a comeback by the Congress-led UDF in Kerala after 10 years, dethroning the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF).
Polling for the 140-member Kerala assembly was held on April 9. Results of assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Puducherry, besides Kerala, will be announced on May 4.
