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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RJD surprise element in J’khand polls, party candidates leading in 5 of 6 assembly seats
Ranchi(PTI): The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has emerged as a surprise element in the Jharkhand assembly elections with its candidates leading in five of the six seats where the party is contesting, according to trends available on the Election Commission's website on Saturday.
RJD candidates in five assembly seats were leading over sitting BJP legislators.
In 2019, RJD had secured only the Chatra seat where its nominee Satyanand Bhokta won.
In Deoghar, RJD’s Suresh Paswan was leading by 19,581 votes over his nearest rival and BJP's sitting MLA Narayan Das after the third round of counting.
RJD’s Sanjay Prasad Yadav was ahead by 19,867 votes in Godda over BJP MLA Amit Kumar Mandal after the sixth round of counting.
In Koderma, RJD nominee Subhash Prasad Yadav, who was out on bail, was leading by a margin of 3,471 votes over BJP’s sitting legislator Neera Yadav.
Subhas Prasad Yadav, considered to be one of the close aides of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case.
Party’s Naresh Prasad Singh was leading by 5,159 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP’s Bishrampur MLA Ramchandra Chandravanshi.
RJD's Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav was also leading from Hussainabad by 8,213 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP MLA Kamlesh Kumar Singh.
Party’s candidate Rashmi Prakash, however, was trailing from Chatra by 3,776 votes.
Bhokta did not contest the elections this time, and his daughter-in-law Prakash was given a ticket.
