Mangaluru: Bajpe Police have taken into custody two minor boys from Suralpady, who are suspects in a case of theft at the residence of a MESCOM official at Tenka Ekkar recently.

The official had filed a complaint with the Bajpe Police a week ago that silver items used while conducting prayer rituals had been stolen from his house. The Bajpe Police, who registered a case and investigated the matter, took the minor boys into custody.

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The police have also confiscated one motorbike and silver items worth Rs 30,000 from the boys, who have been presented before the Juvenile Justice Board, said the officers.

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ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.

“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.

The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.

Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.

There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.