Mysuru: In an operation near Gopalpura of the taluk on Friday night, the district police arrested a man accused in a dacoity case by shooting him in the leg as he tried to escape by attacking a police inspector and a constable.

Mysuru ASP C Mallik has said that the arrested accused, identified as Adarsh, a native of Kerala, was among three people who were arrested for robbing a Kerala-based businessman near Harohalli in Jayapura Police Station jurisdiction limits, Deccan Herald has reported.

On Friday, the police took Adarsh to conduct a spot inquest near Gopalpura when he said he needed to answer nature’s call but tried to escape and also throw a liquor bottle on the Jayapura Sub-inspector Prakash and constable Harish.

Mysuru Circle Inspector Shivanand Shetty warned Adarsh by firing in the air, in spite of which, the accused attempted to assault the Prakash and Harish. Bylakuppe Circle Inspector took immediate action by firing at Adarsh in the left leg below the knee.

The injured police personnel are under treatment at the KR Hospital, while Adarsh is being treated at the Trauma Care Hospital on KRS Road.

Superintendent of Police N Vishnuvardhana and ASP C Mallik visited the spot. He is also learned to have met the injured officers and the arrested accused in the hospitals.

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New Delhi (PTI): Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday took a swipe at the "failed" US-Iran peace talks in Pakistan with an Urdu couplet, saying only god knows now what will happen.

"Ab kya hoga, ye rab jane; Na woh mane, na ye mane (only god knows what will happen now as both sides did not agree)," Tharoor said on X, tagging a post-talks video clip of US Vice President J D Vance, who led the American delegation at the negotiations in Islamabad.

The United States and Iran failed to reach a peace deal at their historic 21-hour talks in Pakistan, leaving the fate of a tenuous two-week ceasefire in doubt, with both sides attempting to hold each other responsible for the collapse of the negotiations.

Vance said the Iranian side did not accept Washington's terms for ending the war even as the US presented its "final and best offer".

Hours after the talks collapsed, US President Donald Trump said on social media that the negotiations with Tehran failed as "Iran is unwilling to give up its nuclear ambitions".

Trump said the US Navy will actively interdict any vessel in international waters found to have paid tolls to Iran for transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route that handles roughly 20 per cent of global oil and LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas).

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the head of the Iranian negotiation team, said it is for the US to decide whether it can "earn our trust or not".

The Iranian foreign ministry, without elaborating, said the US side resorted to "excessive" and "illegal demands".

The failure to reach an agreement has dimmed the prospect of reopening the Strait of Hormuz to stabilise the global energy marke