32-year-old rowdy-sheeter Karthik hacked to death in Varuna taluk over old rivalry
Mysuru: Rowdy-sheeter Karthik (32) was hacked to death using lethal weapons, reportedly by a group of men, outside a hotel in Varuna taluk shortly past midnight on Monday.
The six suspects are learned to have come in a car and a scooter to the incident site at around 1.45 am on Monday. They are suspected to have brutally attacked and murdered Karthik, a resident of Kyatamaranahalli in Mysuru city, over an old rivalry.
The rowdy-sheeter’s body was shifted to the KR Hospital in Mysuru for a post-mortem test.
Varuna Police have registered a case and are investigating the incident. Search for the absconding suspects is on.
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Fire in coach of New Delhi-Chennai express train; no casualty
Nagpur (PTI): A coach of the New Delhi-Chennai Grant Trunk Express caught fire in Maharashtra's Wardha district on Tuesday morning, railway officials said.
There were no casualties, they said.
Train 12616 New Delhi-Chennai (Tambaram) Grant Trunk Express left from Nagpur in the morning. While it was heading towards Sindi railway station in Wardha, smoke was detected in the last guard coach of the train at 11.09 am, Central Railway spokesperson Sanjay Muley told PTI.
The train was stopped on the Sindi-Tuljapur section, the affected coach was detached immediately, and the fire brigade was called, he said.
All passengers in the train and the coach concerned were safe, the official said.
The cause of the fire will be known after a detailed investigation.
The train will resume its journey in some time without the affected coach, the official added.
