Mangaluru: Panambur Police on Friday arrested three people in connection with the tyres theft case that was reported from a tyre factory in Baikampady Industrial Area.
The arrested accused have been identified as Santosh (30) a resident of Borekatte, Riyaz Ahmed (32) a resident of Kattipala and Mohammed Ali (33) a resident of Sorinje.
The trio has been accused of robbing 20 tyres of lorry and busses along with one cutting machine. The theft items were reported to be worth Rs. five lakhs which have been recovered from the accused.
The theft was reported on October after the owner of the factory Harish Kumar was out of the city.

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Kolkata (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s helicopter failed to land at the Taherpur helipad in West Bengal owing to low visibility on account of dense fog in the area on Saturday, an official said.
The PM’s chopper made a U-turn after hovering over the helipad ground for a while and returned to the Kolkata airport, he said.
Till reports last received, the Prime Minister was waiting at the airport for further updates on the weather situation.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Modi would reach the rally venue district by road or whether he would wait for the weather to clear up and make another attempt to reach Taherpur by the aerial route, the official said.
Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister reached Kolkata at around 10.40 am and took a chopper onward to Taherpur in Nadia district, where he is scheduled to hold an administrative programme to launch highway projects in West Bengal, followed by a political rally of the BJP, titled Parivartan Sankalpa Sabha, which he is supposed to address.
