Bagalkot: In a tragic incident reported on Friday, four youngsters died while two others sustained injuries after a car fell into a canal near Halaki village here.

The deceased have been identified as Sunil (24), Mahadevagouda S Patil (27), Mounesh Kumbar (26), and Shivanand Latti (26), all residents of different villages of Ramdurg Taluk. The two injured are Iranna Ghatti and Farhan Athiq, who are also residents of Ramdurg.

The accident occurred while they were heading to Ramdurg after attending a private function at Mudhol. The driver lost control of the vehicle and the car fell into a Halaki canal that was next to the road. The accident was so intense that four people including the driver breathed their last on the spot.”

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“In the accident, two people suffered severe injuries and were admitted to a private hospital in Mudhol. With the help of a crane, the car was removed from the canal in the hours,” claimed police.

A complaint has been registered in Lokapur Police Station. A police inspector said that “It is too early to say whether the driver and youths in the car were intoxicated. It will be known in the autopsy and investigation is underway.”

It may be noted that in the last one week a total of ten people have lost lives in accidents in Bagalkot and Bijapur districts.

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New Delhi (PTI): AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal, who has been accused by her party of being part of a conspiracy to frame Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a false case, on Sunday said her party colleagues once sought justice for Nirbhaya but today they are supporting a person accused of assaulting her.

She said if AAP leader and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, who is in jail in connection with the Delhi excise police case, had been here "maybe things wouldn't have been so bad for me!"

Maliwal has alleged that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar assaulted her on May 13 when she went to the CM's residence to meet him. The Aam Aadmi Party has trashed her allegations and claimed Maliwal was acting at the behest of the BJP to frame Kejriwal in a fake case.

Maliwal, who has been associated with the AAP since its inception more than 10 years ago, said on Sunday there was a time when "we all used to come out on the streets to get justice for Nirbhaya".

"Today, 12 years later, we have come out on the streets to save the accused (Bibhav Kumar) who made the CCTV footage disappear and formatted the phone? I wish they had used this much force for Manish Sisodia ji. Had he been here, maybe things wouldn't have been so bad for me!" she wrote.

Police have arrested Kumar in connection with the case.