Bantwal: Bantwal police have arrested one of the accused on Wednesday night who allegedly barged into a house and assaulted and attempted to murder.

The arrested has been identified as a resident of Kudrebettu Balteel village and car driver of the RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat Yathiraj. The other accused in the case are absconding, police sources said.

Incident Details

According to a complaint filed at Bantwal Town police station, a gang of miscreants led by Yathiraj barged into a house belonging to Kudrebettu Baltil resident Chandraprabha and assaulted the latter’s father Kantappa Pujari and fled the scene on June 3 at around 5:30 pm. Following which, Kantappa sustained head and leg injuries.

“Accused Yathiraj has been arrested and produced before the court on Wednesday. He has been charged with judicial custody,” SP Ravikante Gowda informed.

In June last year, a gang led by Yathiraj allegedly thronged into a house of a woman and attempted to molest her with cast based comments and attempted to kill her in the limits of Bantwal city police station.

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Mumbai, Nov 24: There is unrest in the Maha Vikas Aghadi camp and its five to six MLAs might join the ruling Mahayuti in the next few months, claimed NCP chief whip Anil Patil, who has retained his Amalner assembly seat, on Sunday.

The MVA of Congress, NCP (SP) and Shiv Sena (UBT) suffered a crushing blow in the Maharashtra assembly polls, winning only 46 of the state's 288 seats. By contrast, the BJP-led ruling coalition, which also has NCP and Shiv Sena as partners, bagged an impressive 230 seats.

“There is tremendous unrest among some NCP (SP), Congress and Sena (UBT) MLAs who have been re-elected. Those having good relations with us have expressed concerns over MVA’s massive defeat,” Patil told Marathi news channel ABP Majha.

If one wants development works in his constituency, it is good to be in power, said the legislator from Ajit Pawar’s party.

“The MVA MLAs feel their future is uncertain. It shouldn’t be a surprise if five to six MLAs cross over to the Mahayuti in the next four months,” he said.

In the results of the Maharashtra polls declared on Saturday, BJP won in 132 constituencies, while its partners Shiv Sena and NCP walked away with 57 and 41 seats, respectively.

From the MVA camp, Shiv Sena (UBT) bagged 20 seats followed by Congress’ 16 and 10 by NCP (SP).