Bantwal: Bantwal police have arrested one of the accused on Wednesday night who allegedly barged into a house and assaulted and attempted to murder.

The arrested has been identified as a resident of Kudrebettu Balteel village and car driver of the RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat Yathiraj. The other accused in the case are absconding, police sources said.

Incident Details

According to a complaint filed at Bantwal Town police station, a gang of miscreants led by Yathiraj barged into a house belonging to Kudrebettu Baltil resident Chandraprabha and assaulted the latter’s father Kantappa Pujari and fled the scene on June 3 at around 5:30 pm. Following which, Kantappa sustained head and leg injuries.

“Accused Yathiraj has been arrested and produced before the court on Wednesday. He has been charged with judicial custody,” SP Ravikante Gowda informed.

In June last year, a gang led by Yathiraj allegedly thronged into a house of a woman and attempted to molest her with cast based comments and attempted to kill her in the limits of Bantwal city police station.

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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.