Mangaluru: Sultanul Ulama Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar will be visiting the ancestral home of businessman Late Haji B M Mumtaz Ali, an active figure in social and religious circles, at Chokkabettu near Surathkal on October 9 at 11.30 am to express his condolences, a report stated on Tuesday.

Aboobacker Musliyar will lead the condolence meet for the deceased at his house. This will be followed by a special meeting at the Misbah Knowledge Foundation, Katipalla where Ali was the president. A P Ustad, as the religious scholar is popularly known across Karnataka and Kerala, was also a major patron of the foundation, General Secretary of the Misbah Group of Institutions Dr M S M Abdul Rasheed Zaini Kamil Saqafi stated in a press release.

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BM Mumtaz Ali’s dead body was found in Phalguni River on Monday, a day after his car was found in suspicious condition on Kuloor Bridge here in the city.

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Ranchi (PTI): A 60-year-old security guard of a temple in Ranchi was bludgeoned to death with a stone during a robbery attempt, police said on Saturday.

The incident happened late on Thursday at the Jagannath Temple in the Dhurwa Smart City area, they said.

"Three persons were arrested on Friday for killing the security guard. They confessed to the crime and told police that the victim had identified them. Therefore, in fear of being caught, they killed him by attacking him with a stone on his head," SSP Rakesh Ranjan said.

"Thereafter, they took money from the donation box and fled the scene. Two of them have criminal antecedents," he added.

Ranjan said the investigators recovered Rs 3 lakh in cash that had been robbed, the stone with blood-stained marks, and the iron rod used to break open the lock of the donation box kept there.

An FIR in this regard was lodged at the Dhurwa police station, he said, adding that the accused were sent to judicial custody by a court.