Five arrested for assault on NSUI district leader Sharath Kunder in Udupi
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Udupi: Udupi City Police have arrested five persons in connection with the assault on NSUI district leader Sharath Kunder over a minor issue.
The arrested accused have been identified as Akshath Pai (27) of Kunjibettu, Sushanth (25), Ramananda Pai (42), Santosh Koraga (38) and Shamshank Nayak (25) of Alevoor.
Police have seized the car allegedly used in the crime and two mobile phones from the accused. The arrested persons have been produced before the court.
According to the complaint, on January 30 at around 9 pm, Sharath Kunder (25), a resident of Chittadi Bailoor Badagubettu, had gone to a hotel in Manipal along with a friend for dinner. There, a verbal argument reportedly broke out between him and Akshath Pai, Shashank and the son of the owner of Radhakrishna General Store in Udupi over a trivial matter.
Later, when Sharath was returning home and reached near Kalsanka, Akshath Pai allegedly called him and asked him to stop near PPC Cross to discuss the issue related to the hotel argument. At around 11.30 pm, while Sharath was standing by the roadside near PPC Cross along with his friends Dhruva, Silan Gagan and Rohith, two vehicles reportedly arrived at the spot.
As per the complaint, Akshath Pai, Shashank and 6 to 7 others got down from the vehicles and assaulted Sharath using sword-like weapons and an iron chain.
After the assault, the accused allegedly issued death threats and fled from the scene. The injured Sharath was admitted to hospital and treated.
A case had been registered at Udupi City Police Station and further investigation is underway.
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BJP's Pravesh Wahi elected MCD mayor
New Delhi (PTI): BJP councillor from Rohini East, Pravesh Wahi, was elected mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Wednesday.
Wahi secured 156 votes, with 14 councillors of the Indraprastha Vikas Party backing him. Congress candidate Hazi Zaraf received nine votes.
BJP councillor from Anand Vihar, Monika Pant, was elected deputy mayor with 156 votes.
Jai Bhagwan Yadav from Begumpur and Manish Chadha from Paharganj were elected to the standing committee from the BJP, while AAP councillor Jalaj Chaudhary from Shalimar Bagh was also elected to the MCD panel.
On being elected mayor, Wahi thanked Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and the BJP leadership, saying, "We will clean Delhi in the coming months. We will work for the development of Delhi."
The electoral college for this year's mayoral election comprised 273 votes, including 249 councillors, 14 MLAs nominated by the Delhi Assembly, seven Lok Sabha MPs and three Rajya Sabha members from Delhi. A candidate required 137 votes to win.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) abstained from the mayoral polls. Earlier, the party's Delhi unit president Saurabh Bharadwaj said in a statement that the move would allow the BJP to take charge of the civic body and help AAP "expose" the ruling party on governance.
"Despite having power at all levels, the BJP has failed to bring about any change in Delhi. The BJP does not know how to perform. Only AAP knows how to work," Bharadwaj said.
Earlier, AAP controlled the mayoral post, with Mahesh Kumar Khinchi winning the election in November 2024 by just three votes.
The three civic bodies -- East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC), North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) -- were reunified into a single entity on May 22, 2022, as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.
