Udupi: Girl kidnap; Accused fled leaving car
Miscreants pushed yelling girl from car
Udupi, Jan 30: In a filmy style incident, miscreants who were allegedly kidnapping a girl in a car, pushed her out of the car on the road and fled the scene leaving the car, on national highway 66 at Balaipade near Kinnimulki in the taluk on Wednesday afternoon.
A girl was yelling in a car coming from Mangaluru to Udupi and when the car reached Balaipade auto stand, she opened the rear door of the car and put half of her body outside the car. Suddenly, the car driver stopped the car on midway and pushed her out of the car and fled the scene, it is said.
Before the auto drivers gathering on the spot, the girl got into another vehicle in which a woman and driver were there, and went away. Eyewitness auto driver Shankar Sherigar said that the vehicle moved towards Mangaluru.
But the driver of the car in which the girl was kidnapped, moved towards the city through Kinnimulki flyover and as there was traffic congestion in the service road, he parked the car near a building, got into a service bus and fled, according to auto drivers who followed the car.
On information, DySP Jaishankar, Malpe police inspector Madhu and others rushed to the spot and verified the situation. Later, key makers were summoned and opened the doors of the car. The police recovered the ladies bag from the car and they also found slippers of both man and woman and a headphone. Now, the police seized the car also.
“This seems to be a criminal act and triggers suspicion. On prima facie, this is may be kidnap. But the police have to investigate the case to find the truth”, said social worker Krishnamurthy Kinnimulki.
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BMTC collects over Rs 19 lakh as fine from those travelling without tickets, occupying ladies seat
Bengaluru (PTI): The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has collected over Rs 19 lakh as a penalty from 10,069 passengers who were penalised for travelling without tickets and occupying seats exclusively reserved for ladies in the last three months, officials said on Thursday.
The checking staff of BMTC have intensified checking of buses operated in and around Bengaluru City to detect ticketless travelling by passengers, they said.
According to BMTC, during the months of August, September and October, the checking staff checked 57,219 trips and penalised 8,891 ticketless passengers by collecting Rs 17,96,030 as penalty and 5,268 cases were booked against conductors for their dereliction of duty.
During the same period, they have also penalised 1,178 male passengers for occupying seats exclusively reserved for lady passengers and imposed fines by collecting Rs 1,17,800 in accordance with the KMV (Karnataka Motor Vehicle) Rules of the MV Act of 1988.
"In total, during the months of August, September and October, 10,069 passengers were penalised and Rs 19,13,830 was collected," the BTMC officials stated.
