Bakrid: Group attacks students who visited friend’s home; Five held
Puttur: Puttur rural police have arrested five persons for allegedly assaulting students, including girls, who were on the way to visit their classmate’s residence.
The incident took place on Wednesday at Renja near Bettampady in Puttur taluk.
A student at Sahyadri College in Mangaluru Abdul Shamir, son of Ibrahim, had invited his classmates to his house on the festival. Five girls and five boys arrived at Renja by bus and hired a rickshaw to reach Shamir’s home.
During the journey, when the rickshaw driver asked about their purpose of going, they said that they were going to Shamir’s home to have bakrid lunch. After learning this, the rickshaw driver, who not only refused to drop them at the address, also informed this to Sangh Parivar organisations allegedly. At the same time, Abdul Shamir, who was waiting to pick up his friends, had reportedly been abused and beaten up by a gang. The injured Shamir has been admitted to the Puttur Government Hospital.
A case was registered against residents Rukma, Satish Kurnappadi, Sheshappa Pittar, Rickshaw driver Ganesh, Kunhi, Duggappa, and Purushottama, who allegedly attacked and blocked the students, attempted to hurt communal sentiments and tried to spark communal violence.
The residents have expressed their anger and distrust against the attack on the students who were arrived to accept the invitation of Bakrid lunch.
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Karnataka to witness heavy rain for next 10 days
Bengaluru: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast that the southwest monsoon will cause heavy rainfall likely this weekend and will drench Karnataka over the next 10 days.
The monsoon has begun retreating from northwestern India. Conditions remain active over the south, with an upper air trough extending up to 1.5 km over North Interior Karnataka and northern Tamil Nadu, combined with weakening monsoon winds across the peninsula, is driving the current spell. N. Puviarasan, head of the IMD’s meteorological centre in Bengaluru, said in a conversation with Deccan Herald, “As a result, the whole of Karnataka will see rain over the next week to 10 days."
With a cyclone in the Pacific Ocean along with a low-pressure system over the north Bay of Bengal, the monsoon is expected to intensify during the next four days. IMD has predicted heavy rains across South Interior Karnataka, including Bengaluru, throughout the weekend.
Bengaluru, recorded widespread moderate to heavy rainfall on Thursday. Between 8.30 am and 8.30 pm, Bengaluru city logged 45.9 mm of rain accompanied by thunderstorms. HAL airport registered 6 mm and the Bengaluru Urban automatic station recorded 47.5 mm. Doddathoguru, near Electronics City, reported 55 mm.
According to IMD forecast heavy rainfall will occur at isolated places in Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru Rural, Yadgir, Koppal, Raichur, Ramanagara and Mandya districts in the next few days.
The southwest monsoon is now expected to extend until mid-October and with little or no break in between, the northeast monsoon is likely to follow immediately. These are expected to last until December. “There may be no break in between,” Puviarasan said.
