Bantwal: Police teams led by SP combing near Farangipet to find missing youngster Diganth
Bantwal: The Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Yateesh N-led police team started combing Farangipet and the nearby areas starting Saturday morning, to find the 19-year-old boy Diganth, who has been missing for more than 10 days.
Diganth, who is a resident of Kidebettu near Farangipet in Ullal taluk and studying in 2nd PUC, is reported to be missing since February 25. With the boy’s mobile phone and footwear with blood stains were found on the railway track in Farangipet, the Bantwal Rural Police Station filed a missing case and are searching for Diganth.
Over the last 12 days, however, the search efforts of more than 40 police personnel have gone futile. SP Yatheesh has now stepped in for the search and taken charge of the combing operation to look for the missing boy.
The inspectors of nine police stations under the Bantwal Sub-division, police station heads and more than 100 police personnel have been searching for Diganth since Saturday morning. Thirty DAR police personnel, Railway police personnel, fire brigade staff member, staff of the Forensic Sciences Laboratory have joined and the dog squad and the drone cameras are being used for a search over a 5-km span. In addition, a search for Diganth is being conducted in the waters of River Nethravathi.
SP Yatheesh, Additional SP Rajendra, Deputy SP Vijayaprasad, Inspectors Shivakumar, Ananthapadmanabha, H Nagaraj, Sub-inspectors Nandakumar, Prasanna, Avinash, Harish, Udayaravi, Ramakrishna, Kishore, Samarth, Arjun, Muralidhara, Anand and Kaushik are among those present in the 10 teams searching for Diganth.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
