Raichur, December 23: Manvi police on Sunday arrested a lorry driver on charges of moving down a village accountant for stopping the lorry carrying sand illegally.

The arrested has been identified as Rangappa. On Saturday, village accountant Saheb Patel (45) was killed after moving him down. 

After registering the case, police have intensified the operation. Based on the Complaint registered by Irfan Ali against the driver of the lorry belonging to Sharanaiah Gouda, police have arrested the accused.

About incident

It is said every day, hundreds of loads of sand was being transported to Hyderabad and Bangalore by lifting the sand from Tunga bhadra river bed at Cheekalaparvi village in Manvi taluk in Raichur district. In Saturday, when Village accountant Saheb Patel stopped the lorry carrying sand near Buddinni in the taluk to check it, the lorry driver moved him down and killed, it is said.

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Tehran/Doha: Iran’s President Massoud Pezeshkian has warned that attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure could lead to “uncontrollable consequences” affecting the entire world.

In a post on X, Pezeshkian said he “strongly condemns” the strikes that targeted the South Pars gasfield earlier in the day.

“Such aggressive actions will not achieve anything for the American Zionist enemy and their supporters. Rather, they will complicate the situation and could lead to uncontrollable consequences that will affect the entire world,” he said.

Meanwhile, Qatar’s Ministry of Interior has urged residents to remain indoors due to what it described as an elevated security threat.

Authorities have not provided further details, but the advisory comes amid growing concerns over the safety of energy infrastructure and civilian areas in the region.