Assault of KSRTC bus driver, conductor: Challakere Police detain 4
Chitradurga: Challakere Police officers have detained four people under charge of assault of a KSRTC bus conductor as well as the bus driver who tried to stop them from attacking the conductor.
The assaulters are identified as Chandrika, Mallikarjuna, Shivaraja and Naveen, who are all residents of Challakere.
On Tuesday, the Vegadoota bus from the KSRTC Bangalore Central Division was reserved for one-way interstate travel. The women passengers of the bus could also avail of the new Shakti Yojana of the state government.
Chandrika climbed into the bus at Challakere and asked for a ticket for Dabaspet, but the conductor told her that the bus was interstate and would not stop at Dabaspet. “We stop at Tumakuru, you can take another bus there,” the conductor advised her. Chandrika purchased the Tumakuru ticket, but, instead of getting off the bus there, she is learned to have created a scene in the bus, demanding that she be dropped at Dabaspet and not Tumakuru.
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The KSRTC officials, in the complaint they filed with the police, have said that the conductor asked the driver to waive the journey rule and drop the woman near the Dabaspet flyover, as Chandrika wanted. The group attacked the conductor at Challakere although the conductor cooperated with the woman passenger, they added.
The Challakere Police officers, who investigated the matter, have detained the four people.
The driver and the conductor were admitted to the government hospital at Challakere. The conductor, who is injured in the chest and neck, will be shifted to the government hospital at either Chitradurga or Davanagere for further treatment, said sources.
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TN supplier of ghee to Tirupati temple says labs have certified product quality
Chennai (PTI): AR Dairy, a company that supplied ghee to Tirupati Lord Balaji temple, on Friday said their product samples have been duly cleared by authorities certifying its quality.
The Dindigul based firm's spokespersons told reporters that only during the months of June and July they had supplied ghee to the Tirumala Lord Venkateswaraswamy temple.
Even when ghee was supplied to Tirupati temple, it was sent along with duly accredited lab reports.
"There has been no deviations at all." Their firm was only one of the several vendors who had supplied ghee to the TTD and quality certifications had been shared with them.
"Our ghee is not being sent now to Tirupati temple. We don't send," a spokesperson said, adding, their products were available at all places and that these could be tested for quality.
A major row has erupted following Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's claims of low quality ghee and alleged presence of animal fat in the laddus made and distributed at the shrine.
