Polali Candle Santhu murder case: Life term for two accused
Mangaluru, July 20: The fourth additional principal district and sessions court on Friday convicted two accused for life imprisonment and slapped a penalty of Rs 1 lakh each on charges of murdering Candle Santu alias Santosh of Polali Badakabailu.
The convicted are identified as Iqbal (39) of Bandaru and Farooq (30) of Kukkundoor Bangle Gudde in Karkala taluk. Out of Rs 2 lakh penalty, Rs 1.8 lakh should be given to the family of Santhosh and Rs 20,000 should be remitted to the government, the court said.
There were total 22 accused in the case and 13 accused were acquitted from the case, while three accused were absconding and four were died. Convicted Iqbal was the prime accused in the case and Farooq was the sixth accused.
Incident
When Santosh was sitting on a gutter at Badakabailu in Bantwala taluk on February 18 2009 at 9.30 am, the miscreants who came in a car and motorbike attacked him with lethal weapons. Sensing the danger, Santosh started running to escape from them. But as he had a leg injury in an incident earlier, he could not run fast. He was chased and attacked him brutally. Though the local people rushed him to the hospital, he died in the hospital.
Murder plan prepared in abroad
Being in abroad, Madoor Isubu had planned for the murder of Santosh and given a contract to the accused to kill him. He was killed in the jail at the city in 2015. During the arrest of the accused, Rs 2 lakh supari money was confiscated from them. Another accused Madoor Ismail died of heart attack,while Kukkundoor Sulaiman alias Khader was murdered at Karkala.
Reason for murder?
Santosh was an accused in the murder of Mallur Hamid of Kairangala village in Bantwala taluk on April 9, 2006 and Rafeeq of Gurupura Kaikamba on December 23, 2000. To take revenge against these murders, Madoor Isubu had planned to kill Santosh.
Taking it for hearing, judge Nerale Veerabhadraiah Bhavani got the statements of 25 witnesses heard the arguments and delivered the judgement. Then Bantwala rural inspector Nanjunde Gowda filed the charge sheet to the court. Public prosecutor Harishchandra Udyavara argued against the accused.
Meanwhile, SP Ravikanthe Gowda had appreciated the efforts of the Bantwala rural inspector Nanjunde Gowda and police personnel and announced a prize.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
— Bareilly Police (@bareillypolice) November 24, 2024
