Mangaluru: The Surathkal Police on Tuesday arrested a young individual accused of making derogatory remarks in a video posted on social media against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar.

The arrested accused has been identified as Anil Kumar (34), a resident of Ajjarani in Sirsi Taluk of Uttara Kannada district. Anil is learnt to be residing in the city’s Surathkal Kana in a rented house and was working as a tourist car driver.

The accused reportedly recorded a video, wherein he passed derogatory remarks about the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister and circulated it on social media.

The accused who was attempting to include his name in the ration card in order to benefit from various government schemes of the government, was not able to perform the action from the past three months pertaining to server and other issues, frustrated out of which the accused recorded and circulated the video on social media, said the police.

It has been learnt that the police have registered a case under IPC section 153A, 505(i)(c), 504 against the accused Anil Kumar at the Surathkal police station.

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Godhra (Gujarat) (PTI): Four members of a family were killed, and one sustained grievous injuries after their speeding car jumped a divider on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway corridor in Gujarat's Panchmahal district on Monday, police said.

The car driver lost control of the wheels near Kalol. As a result, the four-wheeler jumped the divider and veered off to the other side of the highway, an official from Kalol police station said.

Soon after the accident, some locals rushed to the scene and also alerted the police. Efforts were made to pull out the people trapped in the car.

Four persons died on the spot, while one suffered injuries, the official said.

The deceased were members of a family from Vadodara and were returning from Rajasthan when the tragedy struck, the official said.

They have been identified as Sajid Iqbal Khinji (55), Ilyas Iqbal Khinji (50), Ishaq Iqbal Khinji (48) and Rehan Azgar Khinji (35).