Four held for attempting to assault cops
Case against 10 persons including Vittla town panchayat member
Bantwala, July 08: Vittla police on Sunday arrested four persons on charges of obstructing the police from discharging their duty and attempting to assault them.
The arrested are identified as Praveen, Ganesh, Aneesh and Akshath. Based on a complaint by police station employee Prasanna Kumar, the police booked a case against ten members including Vittle town panchayat member Srikrishna and his brother Srihari.
About the incident
When police personnel S Ashok, Prasanna Kumar and Jayanth were on their night duty at around 12.30 am, a team of ten members including Srikrishna were making merry at old bus stand and creating nuisance in an inebriated condition. When the police asked them to leave the place as it was a public place, one among ten persons threatened the police and spit the cigarette smoke on their face. At this time, another person in the group snatched the mobile phone of Ashok who was recording the incident and stopped him from doing his duty. The police said that they even had tried to assault them.
As soon as the police summoned more force from the police station, the accused fled the scene leaving the mobile phone behind. A case was registered at Vittla police station.
One among the accused is town panchayat member backed by BJP. Now, four accused were arrested, said SP Ravikanthe Gowda.
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Rupee falls 9 paise to all-time low of 90.58 against US dollar in early trade
Mumbai (PTI): Rupee depreciated 9 paise to an all-time low of 90.58 against US dollar in early trade on Monday, weighed down by uncertainty over an India-US trade deal and persistent foreign fund outflows.
Forex traders said rupee is trading with a negative bias as investors are in wait and watch mode and awaiting cues from the India-US trade deal front.
At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 90.53 against the US dollar, then fell further to an all-time intraday low of 90.58 against the greenback, registering a fall of 9 paise over its previous close.
On Friday, the rupee had slipped 17 paise to close at an all-time low of 90.49 against the American currency.
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of six currencies, was trading 0.05 per cent lower at 98.35.
Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, was trading higher by 0.52 per cent at USD 61.44 per barrel in futures trade.
On the domestic equity market front, the 30-share benchmark index Sensex was trading 298.86 points lower at 84,968.80, while the Nifty was down 121.40 points at 25,925.55.
Foreign Institutional Investors sold equities worth Rs 1,114.22 crore on Friday, according to exchange data.
"FPIs continue to be in selling mode in equity and debt while RBI has been selling dollars to fund their long positions," said Anil Kumar Bhansali, Head of Treasury and Executive Director Finrex Treasury Advisors LLP.
