Uppinangady: Complainant turns accused in lorry robbery case
Uppinangady: Uppinangady police succeeded in cracking the lorry robbery case which had occurredwas reported from Shiradi Gudde on March 25 at Mangalore-Bengaluru National Highway. Much to the surprise of the investigators, the complainant himself has turned out to be the accused of the case.
The police arrested the complainant lorry driver for allegedly creating a story of the robbery. The arrested has been identified as Ambareesh.
The lorry driver had filed a complaint at local police station that three unidentified people, who came in a car, waylaid his truck when he reached Shiradi Gudde on March 25. The trio gagged and tied him up after which they assaulted him and robbed Rs. 5,200, mobile phone worth Rs. 2000 and the goods which was being transported in the truck.
However, during the course of investigation, the Uppinangady police began to suspect the complainant. When they intensified the investigation, the police reached to the conclusion that the complainant himself bluffed the story and later reported the case to the police.
Ambareesh, a resident of Sitapur in Pandvapur Taluk, was debt ridden and to pay his loans he bluffed the crime and reported it to the police. According to the reports Uppinangady police recovered Rs 51,500 from him, which he had collected after selling the products from the truck.
The truck was transporting products of Hindustan Unilever including soaps, shampoo, tea powder and coffee powder
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TMC MLA Humayun Kabir apologises for claiming 'coterie' influencing Mamata's decisions
Kolkata (PTI): Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir has apologised to the party's leadership for his recent comment that a "coterie" was influencing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's key decisions.
Kabir, the MLA of Bharatpur in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, expressed his apology on Friday in reply to a show cause notice issued by the party's disciplinary committee.
"Yes, I have sent a reply. I will certainly follow party discipline. But I think being a person from the rural belt, not conversant with the ways of the city, I faced this situation for speaking my mind. However, I had not said anything against my party or its leadership," he told reporters.
"Our CM epitomises the spirit of 'Maa-Mati-Manush' and being a person of the grassroots level, I always stay rooted to the ground. Maybe I should have been more careful about my way of expressing," he said.
A senior member of the TMC's legislative disciplinary committee said the reply to the show cause letter was received, and a decision on it will be communicated soon.
Kabir, however, said some other TMC MPs had on earlier occasions made comments against party colleagues but were not censured.
On Thursday, he met the CM in the assembly's lobby where she had asked him to reply to the show-cause notice first.
On November 26, Kabir had said a coterie within the party was taking certain decisions to cement their position and was influencing the CM's key decisions for their short-term gains.
He had said this a day after the TMC national executive meeting where the party had categorically asked its leaders not to make comments in public against any internal decision and formed disciplinary committees at different levels.
Kabir had earlier advocated for giving more responsibility to TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, reiterating that the Diamond Harbour MP was undoubtedly the number two in the party's hierarchy and those trying to undermine his influence would not succeed.
