Dharmasthala Police arrest two men for threatening youngster, attempting physically assault him
Belthangady: Dharmasthala Police have arrested two men under charge of verbally abusing, issuing a death threat and attempting to physically assault a youngster in Shibaje here recently.
The arrested men, Anand Gowda and Thimmappa Poojary of Shibaje, are learned to have tried to attack Praveen, a local youngster, with lethal weapons on May 15. Gowda, armed with an axe, and Poojary, who had an iron rod in hand, reportedly approached Praveen when he was standing outside his house and spoke to him in an abusive manner, raising the issue of caste. When they tried to physically attack him, however, Praveen escaped from the spot and locked himself inside the house, the youngster has said, in the complaint he filed with Dharmasthala Police.
Gowda and Poojary, who had entered the compound without permission, also threatened to kill him, the youngster added in his complaint.
Dharmasthala Police, who had registered a case, probed the matter and arrested the accused duo on Thursday, May 22.
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Illegally stored gas cylinders seized
Thane (PTI): Authorities have seized illegally stored 1,839 gas cylinders and seven vehicles worth over Rs 67 lakh in the Dombivli MIDC area of Thane district, officials said on Saturday.
A special vigilance team of the Mumbai Rationing Department detected an illegal storage of domestic and commercial LPG cylinders in Phase-2 of Dombivli (East).
Cylinders belonging to multiple gas agencies were found stockpiled in closed vehicles, unauthorised warehouses, and open sheds without mandatory permissions from the Explosives Department, Fire Department, or oil companies, according to an official release.
