Mangaluru, October 03: The city police arrested three persons on charges of attempting to murder a youth of Gantalkatte.

The arrested are identified as Dhanaraj Poojary alias Dhanu (25) of Thokur Kodikere in the taluk, Dinesh Poojary (38) of Sasihithlu near Haleangadi, and Shashwath Shetty alias Shashwath (23) of Honnakatte Kulai near Surathkal. The police are looking out for remaining accused in the case.

Victim Muhammad Imtiyaz is running a tea stall at the masjid building. As usual, when Imtiyaz was at his tea stall on September 24, a team of four-five persons who came in a car, attacked him with lethal weapons and fled the scene. Imtiyaz sustained severe injuries on his head, hand and back and was admitted to a private hospital in the city.

The group also attacked hotel staff Ibrahim (23) who tried to avoid the attack on Imtiyaz. He also sustained minor injuries in the incident and Moodabidri police registered a case.

Three teams to trace accused

The police have formed three teams, comprise the police personnel of Moodabidri, Mangaluru CCB and Mangaluru City North Sub-division Panamburu Anti-rowdy Squad, to trace the accused.

Accused Dhanaraj alias Dhanu has been facing various cases like murder attempt at Karkala police station and posting derogatory comment in WhatsApp at Surathkal police station. Dinesh Poojary has been facing murder attempt case at Padubidri police station.

Panambur anti-rowdy squad police inspector Rafeeq, Mulki police inspector Ananth Padmanabh and staff, CCB police inspector Shantaram and his staff, Moodabidri police inspector Ramachandra K. Nayak and Anti-rowdy squad ASI Muhammad, staff Kushala Maniyani, Sathish M, Vijay Kanchan, Issaq Ahmed, Radhakrishna, Sharan Kali and Shylendra participated in the operation.



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Bengaluru: In a bid to address the mounting plastic waste problem, Eshwar B. Khandre, Minister for Forests, Ecology, and Environment, has directed the additional chief secretary of the department to formulate regulations that will require packaged water bottle manufacturers to take responsibility for the scientific disposal of plastic bottles.

As part of the proposed plan, Khandre has suggested introducing a minimum price for each water bottle, which would be refunded when the bottle is returned to any establishment selling packaged water, as reported by Deccan Herald on Monday.

Under this initiative, when a person buys a new water bottle, the minimum price for each returned bottle would be discounted from the bill for the new one.

The goal is to ensure that empty bottles are returned to the shops where they were purchased, preventing them from being discarded in public spaces or ending up in the environment. Under the plan, these establishments would then return the empty bottles to manufacturers, who would be responsible for the scientific disposal of the plastic.

Khandre emphasised that the proposed regulations are aimed at tackling plastic pollution more effectively. Although the central government has already banned the manufacture, storage, sale, and use of certain single-use plastics, and the state government has enacted similar regulations, plastic waste continues to be a significant environmental challenge.