Assault on aged women case: Five Bajrang Dal workers held
Sakaleshpura, February 7: Local police on Thursday arrested five members of the Bajrang Dal on charges of assaulting two aged women and setting their tents on fire alleging that they were preparing beef food.
All the five were on Thursday produced before the court.
The arrested accused have been identified as Prathap, Ravi, Raghu, Karthik and Chethan. While the main accused Jeevan is still absconding.
A total eight Bajrang Dal workers assaulted two women Khamarunnisa (70) and Shamshad (70) of Balegadde in the town who have been running their business for the last 40 years on Sandy ground in a tent, alleging that they have been preparing beef food the Bajrang Dal member set their tents on fire and assaulted them by pouring hot sambar on them while also threatening to kill them if they continued their profession.
A case was later registered at the police station, followed by the arrest of five on Thursday.
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
