Mangaluru: City police on Sunday arrested three people in connection with the assault and threatening incident of a student for traveling on a bus with his female classmate. A group of people had assaulted and threatened Syed Rashim Umar on November 24 when he was traveling with his classmate on a bus.

The arrested accused have been identified as Muttu (18), Prakash (21), and Rakesh (23).

Umar was traveling in a private bus to Mangaluru through Nitte on November 24 evening, when a group of men attacked him near the Nanthoor Junction in Mangaluru city. The men, who forcibly entered the bus, shouted at the college student before hitting him with a cane and sticks, Umar has said in the police complaint.

The miscreants also pushed him out off the bus and threatened to kill him if the student informed anyone about the matter, Umar told the police.

A complaint was registered by the Kadri Police, following which it has arrested three people in the case. 

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New Delhi, Apr 3 (PTI): The iconic Taj Mahal in Agra earned the "highest income" through the sale of tickets among the ASI-protected monuments from FY19-20 to FY23-24, according to data shared by the government.

Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat shared the data in a written response to a query in Rajya Sabha.

He was asked the amount that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has received from selling entry tickets to various monuments in the last five years, year-wise and monument-wise; and the monuments that have received the highest income through selling entry tickets in the last five years.

In his response, the minister shared the data in a tabular form for cycles of financial years ranging from FY19-20 to FY23-24.

According to the data, Taj Mahal earned the top slot for all five years.

The Mughal-era architectural wonder was commissioned by Emperor Shah Jehan in the 17th century and it is considered one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.

In FY19-20, the Agra Fort in Agra and Qutub Minar in Delhi were in the second and third positions.

In FY20-21, the Group of Monuments Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu and Sun Temple, Konark were in the second and third positions. In FY23-24, Qutub Minar and Red Fort of Delhi were in the second and third positions.