Three held for creating ruckus with machete in Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Oct 3: Three people have been arrested for creating ruckus with a machete under the influence of an anti-depressant tablet here, police said on Thursday.
A video showing the youth creating panic among the residents by brandishing a machete and attacking people, has gone viral.
Based on a complaint, the accused were arrested.
A pharmacy in the Electronic City here, which supplied the medicine to them without prescription, has been sealed.
“The incident took place last week. When we brought them (Syed, Usman and Salman), we checked their phones. We found a reel in it where he noticed them taking a white tablet,” the Deputy Commissioner of Police (East division) D Devaraj told PTI.
During inquiry, the accused revealed that the pharmacist sold the medicine.
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'Finally committed murder': Teen after killing doctor inside Delhi nursing home, held
New Delhi, Oct 3: A doctor was shot dead inside a nursing home in southeast Delhi's Kalindi Kunj area early Thursday, with the police apprehending a 16-year-old boy for allegedly committing the crime, officials said.
The apprehended juvenile, along with another teen, came for first-aid treatment around 1 am to the three-bedded Nima Hospital located in a narrow lane of Khadda Colony of the area, and allegedly shot dead Dr Javed Akhtar, a Unani practitioner (BUMS), they said.
The main accused, aged around 16 years, after allegedly committing the crime uploaded a post on a social media platform with his photograph and a caption: "Kar diya 2024 mein murder" (Finally committed murder in 2024).
Sources said the police have also questioned a female nurse of the nursing home and her husband in connection with the case.
Joint Commissioner of Police (Southern Range) S K Jain said the murder was a targeted killing executed by two boys living in the same locality.
One of them has been apprehended from Hapur but the motive behind the crime is yet to be ascertained, he said.
Jain said teams are making efforts to nab the other accused, who also appears to be a minor.
He further said the duo met a compounder for dressing and later shot the Unani practitioner in his cabin.
The apprehended juvenile is the one who allegedly opened fire at the doctor. His act was also captured in a CCTV camera installed in the nursing home, Jain added.
The officer said six teams were formed and CCTV footage was collected from inside and around the nursing home. The teams of crime branch also helped in nabbing the main accused, he said.
According to another police officer, Akhtar was found in a chair oozing blood from the head inside the nursing home.
He is survived by his wife, who is also a Unani practitioner, and two children. The family resided in Shaheen Bagh.
Of the two accused, one had got his toe bandaged by the compounder, before the shooting, the officer added.
Abid, an employee at the nursing home, said Akhtar had been working there for the past two years. On the day of the incident, his duty began at 8 pm on Wednesday.
Gajala Parveen and Mohammad Kamil, the nursing staff who were on night duty, heard the gunshot. Parveen rushed inside the cabin and found Akhtar sitting still in a pool of blood.
"It was an unprovoked shooting. It also emerged that the accused did a reconnaissance a day earlier," the officer said.
