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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Kolkata (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday paid tribute to Rabindranath Tagore on his 164th birth anniversary, and said the Nobel laureate’s creations have been illuminating the whole world.

Banerjee, in a post on X, also quoted a few lines from Tagore’s famous collection of poems ‘Gitanjali’ (Song Offerings).

“On the birth anniversary of poet Rabindranath Tagore, we pay our heartfelt respects and bow to him. We remember him not only on 25th Baishakh, but every day. He is in our direction, in our language, in our hope - in everything! The whole world is illuminated by the light of his creation,” the chief minister said.

Tagore’s birth anniversary is celebrated as ‘Rabindra Jayanti’ on 25th Baishakh, according to the Bengali calendar.