Mumbai police allow Karnataka counterparts to meet 'sick' MLA
Mumbai: Mumbai police Friday allowed Karnataka police officials to meet Congress MLA Shreemant Patil, who has been admitted in a state-run hospital here.
The police officials from the southern state recorded Patil's statement, an official said.
The development came amid reports that Patil wrote to Karnataka Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh, denying that he was kidnapped by the BJP.
"I went to Chennai for personal work and felt chest pain. Visited hospital and on doctor's suggestion I came to Mumbai and got admitted here. I was not kidnapped by BJP," Patil wrote in an email to Ramesh, sources said.
Mumbai police provided security to Patil, the legislator from Kagwad in Belgaum district, who arrived here Thursday and was hospitalised after he complained of chest pain.
He was first admitted in a private hospital and later shifted to state-run St George Hospital in South Mumbai, the official said.
"We have provided security to the MLA and his statement was recorded," an official said.
The Congress had alleged Patil had been "kidnapped" as part of efforts to "topple" the coalition government in the southern state.
Congress leader and Karnataka minister D K Shivakumar had said they would produce documents to show Patil was forcibly admitted to the hospital to skip the trust vote in the Assembly.
Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala has set 1.30 pm on Friday as the deadline for Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy to provide his majority on the floor of the house.
According to sources, 15 rebel MLAs from the Congress and JD (S) are camping at a luxury hotel in Mumbai.
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Gurupura: Bus-lorry collide near Bellibettu, drivers critically injured
6 Lakh in cash recovered during rescue operation
Bajpe: A private bus and a lorry collided head-on near Bellibettu bus stand on Wednesday, leaving both drivers seriously injured.
According to sources, the private bus was travelling from Mangaluru to Karkala and a lorry was heading towards Mangaluru.
The impact of the collision was severe, leaving the front portions of both the bus and the lorry completely crushed.
According to locals, the drivers of both vehicles were trapped inside the mangled vehicles and had to be rescued by cutting parts of the damaged vehicles using a gas cutter. Passengers travelling in the bus sustained minor injuries.
The injured drivers were shifted to a private hospital in the city for treatment. Personnel from the Bajpe police station visited the spot, conducted an inspection, and registered a case.
Meanwhile, it has been learnt that during the rescue operation, a local resident, Rafiq Gurupura, found around Rs 6 lakh in cash while cutting open parts of the bus.
The amount was subsequently handed over to the Bajpe police. The rescue operation was carried out by locals including Rafiq, Shivarama, Raoof, Fazil and others.
