Gangavati, July 03: The city police on Sunday arrested four persons on charges of circulating a derogatory message against a private school here.

The accused are identified as Veeresh Mukkanna Sulekal, Nagaraj Channabasappa Alabanur, Shivaprasad and Nagaraj Hugar and Sudhendra Raghavendrachar Sanganal. They were produced before the court.

The accused were arrested as they have allegedly circulated the derogatory message against Chaitanya Techno School of Vaddarahatti in the taluk. A video on children doing Islam prayer during Ramzan month in a school has gone viral in the WhatsApp. The accused have misled the people by sharing it in WhatsApp alleging that the prayer was conducted in Chaitanya Techno School.

School clerk Rajendra Prasad lodged a complaint against the message. Related to this, the police interrogated some BJP workers.



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Thane (PTI): Authorities have seized illegally stored 1,839 gas cylinders and seven vehicles worth over Rs 67 lakh in the Dombivli MIDC area of Thane district, officials said on Saturday.

A special vigilance team of the Mumbai Rationing Department detected an illegal storage of domestic and commercial LPG cylinders in Phase-2 of Dombivli (East).

Cylinders belonging to multiple gas agencies were found stockpiled in closed vehicles, unauthorised warehouses, and open sheds without mandatory permissions from the Explosives Department, Fire Department, or oil companies, according to an official release.