Sakleshpur: Sangh parivar activists attack lorry driver, three arrested
Sakleshpur: A group of Sangh Parivar activists allegedly attacked a goods lorry driver near Balupet in Sakleshpur taluk, mistaking the vehicle for one transporting cows. They beat the driver with sticks and robbed him of money.
The police have arrested three people, Deeraj, Naveen, and Raju, in connection with the incident. They have also seized the car and sticks used in the attack.
Mohammed Nishan, a resident of Nelyadi village in Dakshina Kannada, has been working as a lorry driver for 15 years. On Wednesday night, around 1 a.m., he was transporting plywood from Mangaluru to Bengaluru.
When the lorry was near Bage village on Highway 75, a car suddenly blocked the road. Three men got out of the car and allegedly attacked the lorry, broke its windows, and forced Nishan to get down. They hit him with sticks and allegedly robbed him of ₹18,000 in cash.
Nishan managed to escape by driving away. He stopped near a petrol station in Palya village, left the vehicle there, and ran into a nearby garden to save himself.
The Sakleshpur Rural Police have registered a case and taken up the investigation. The arrested men and their car are in police custody.
Speaking to the media from a government hospital in Sakleshpur, Nishan said, “Three men stopped my lorry, broke the glass with sticks and swords, and pulled me out. They took ₹18,000 from me. I thought I was going to die, but somehow escaped and ran into a garden.”
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NEET student hangs self in Rajasthan's Sikar
Jaipur (PTI): A student preparing for the NEET examination allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a rented room in Rajasthan's Sikar on Friday, police said.
According to the police, the student allegedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan using his sister's scarf while one sister was attending coaching classes and the other was in the bathroom.
He had appeared in the NEET UG exam 2026, which was cancelled due to paper leak, they said.
Udyog Nagar SHO Rajesh Kumar said that the deceased, identified as Pradeep Meghwal, was a resident of Kanika ki Dhani village in Jhunjhunu's Gudha Gaudji area.
He had been living in a rented room in Sikar's Jaldhari Nagar area with his two sisters while preparing for NEET over the last three years.
His elder sister later found him hanging and informed the landlord and police after bringing him down, officials said.
The SHO said the body was kept at SK Hospital mortuary, and a postmortem had not been conducted.
The student's father, Rajesh Kumar Meghwal, told police that Pradeep's NEET examination had gone well and the family was expecting him to score around 650 marks.
Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot expressed grief over the incident and linked it to anxiety among students after reports of irregularities and paper leaks in NEET 2026.
Pilot said repeated paper leak incidents and cancellation of examinations were affecting students' mental health and demanded a time-bound investigation and strict action against those responsible.
