Four persons including the convenor of the Bajrang Dal Savanoor unit, have been admitted to hospital following the clash.
Dhanya Kumar Belandur (26), the Dal office-bearer, has been admitted at the government hospital while Darnappa Gowda, Yateendra Gowda and Monappa Gowda, all linked to BJP, have been admitted to private hospital.
Mr. Kumar on Tuesday speaking to a newspaper said he had been to Kudmaru Chapalya on January 14 midnight following a tip off that cows have been transported on a lorry. “When we way laid the vehicle, we found Darnappa Gowda in the cabin of the truck. He was transporting cattle. When we inquired about the cattle, he hurled abuses and took the vehicle forward,” Mr. Kumar said.
“I received a threatening call from him the next day. I was asked to come to Savanoor under the pretext of compromise. But when I reached there, I was assaulted brutally. I was kicked around and badly beaten up. Somehow I was saved by the timely intervention of the police,” Mr .Kumar said.
In his complaint to the Kadaba police, Mr. Kumar has named Darnappa Gowda, Yathindra Matha, Shivanna Gowda, Honnappa Gowda and Monappa Gowda, Babu Gowda, Balakrishna Shetty, Dayananda Malettaru, Kushalappa Gowda as the accused.
In a counter complaint, Mr. Darnappa Gowda has accused Dhanya Kumar, Dinesh and Anand Gowda Koonkya of preventing their lorry near Kudmaru during midnight and assaulting them.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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