7 people including mother-two children, SSLC student drown in Mandya district
Mandya: In three different cases, seven people have drowned in various parts of the district on Sunday.
Three people drowned in the lake of Beeranahalli in Nagamangala taluk, two in Cholasandra village and two in Ganganahalli village of K R Pet taluk.
In Beeranahalli, Geetha Narasimhayya, 38, and her children Savitha, 19, and Soumya, 14 went to the lake on Sunday morning to wash clothes. One of the girls slipped and fell into the lake. The mother and sister who tried to rescue her too fell into the water and all three of them drowned, said sources.
Nagamangala rural police have registered a case.
In Cholasandra of Bellur hobli, Gangadharayya's daughter Rashmi, 22, and her niece Inchara, 7, had gone to the Yaladahalli lake to wash clothes, when they slipped and fell into the water.
Bellur police have registered a case.
Two people who had gone to the Hemavathi channel to wash their cattle drowned in the channel in Huruli Ganganahalli of kasaba hobli in K R Pet taluk on Sunday morning.
Abhishek, 15, son of Swami Gowda of Huruli Ganganahalli, and his uncle Kumar, 25, son of Javaregowda of Adihalli village, had gone to the lake with their cattle, where Abhishek accidentally slipped into a deep point in the water. Kumar tried to rescue Abhishek but he too drowned in the channel.
K R Pet fire brigade officer Srinivas Rao led team that brought the bodies to the shore and handed them to the families. Taluk APMC president J Chandrahasa and vice president have assured of recompensing the families of the duo that drowned.
Kikkeri police have registered a case.
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Three arrested for running fake Aadhaar racket in UP's Badaun
Budaun (UP), Apr 30 (PTI): The Budaun Police on Thursday busted a gang allegedly involved in preparing fake Aadhaar cards and forged documents, and arrested three of its members, officials said.
The action was carried out in the Hazratpur area, where the accused were found operating an illegal setup to generate fake identity documents, they said.
The accused have been identified as Farman Ali, a resident of Munshi Nagla, Anuj Kumar of Uprela, and Brajnandan of Sirsauli.
The police said a fingerprint scanner, three laptops, a hard disk, a scanner, a large number of Aadhaar cards and several suspicious documents were recovered from their possession.
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During interrogation, it was revealed that the gang had been involved in preparing fake identity documents for a long time, misleading people and earning money through illegal means, officials said.
Station House Officer Pushpendra Singh said the accused have been produced before a court, and efforts are underway to identify and arrest other members of the gang.
He added that further revelations are likely as the investigation progresses.
