Mandya: IPL betting turns fatal as one killed following a brawl between friends
Mandya: In a shocking incident, a young man was killed in a brawl related to IPL cricket betting near Borapur Gate in Maddur taluk late on Thursday night.
The victim has been identified as Puneeth (25), son of Rajendra of Chikkarasinakere village in Maddur taluk. Police have arrested ten accused in connection with the incident.
It is alleged that Puneeth and some of his friends were involved in an IPL cricket betting racket and Puneeth was murdered after he had demanded for the money he had won in the bet.
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According to sources, his friends brought Puneet near the Borapur gate with the promise of betting money, then after a fight broke out, they attacked him fatally and fled from there.
Puneeth, who was injured, was rushed to the nearby KM Doddy Hospital by some of his friends and later admitted to a private hospital in Mysore for further treatment. However, the treatment failed, and he died on Friday morning.
After learning about the matter, the police launched an operation late in the night of the incident and arrested ten persons, including Manju, Sarath, Satish, Sumanth, accused of murder and started investigation. A case has been registered at Maddur police station.
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Notices issued to Himachal conductor, driver for anti-Rahul Gandhi audio clip playing in govt bus
Shimla, Nov 30: After finding itself in soup over a CID enquiry on "missing samosas", the Himachal Pradesh government is again in a tight spot for issuing notices to a state roadways conductor and driver after an audio clip with defamatory remarks against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was allegedly played in their bus.
A man in his complaint to the Chief Minister's Office said defamatory words were used against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and other leaders in an audio clip which was played in the Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus plying between Shimla and Sanjauli on November 5.
In a letter to the conductor and driver of the bus on November 25, the HRTC sought explanation from them. The letter went viral on the internet.
Talking to reporters on Friday, HRTC Managing Director Rohan Chand Thakur said a routine complaint was received from a customer after which a fact finding enquiry was initiated. The enquiry was closed as the allegations were found baseless.
However, the wording of the explanation sought could have been better and the officers have been verbally conveyed to improve in the coming times, he added.
The defamatory words were allegedly used in a debate being played in the audio clip.
Reacting sharply to the letter, BJP MLA from Dharamshala, Sudhir Sharma, said the government should appoint marshals to stop audios being played in buses.
"Such decisions of the government are damaging the reputation of the state government as well as the state," he added.
Earlier, the state CID department had ordered an internal enquiry on the samosas which were brought for Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu during a function and by mistake were served to the his security staff. A senior police official had termed the faux pas as an anti-CID and ant-Government act.
