Mysuru, Nov 23: Police have arrested two chain snatchers and seized from them eight stolen chains weighing 332 grams, worth about Rs 10.60 lakhs at a park in Alanahalli police station limits.
Police said on Friday that the arrested were identified as Mohammed Sadu (21) and Mohammed Muyeez (24).
During interrogation, the arrested have confessed to snatching chains at different parts of the city. The police have also seized two scooters from them.
Bareilly (UP), May 19: Samajwadi leader Chhotelal Diwakar and his son, Sunil Diwakar, were shot dead in broad daylight in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. The entire incident was caught on camera.
The murder was apparently a fallout of a dispute over laying of a road under MGNREGA.
Chhotelal Diwakar had contested the 2017 assembly elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket.
Superintendent of Police, (SP), Sambhal, Yamuna Prasad, said, "Some work was being carried out under MGNREGA due to which some dispute happened. Two people have been shot dead. We will reach the spot of the incident to find more details."
According to his family members, Diwakar and his son had gone for a walk in the fields when the assailants came on a motorbike and after a brief altercation, shot them dead. They fled on foot, leaving their motorbike behind.
A large number of SP workers reached the village soon after the news of the double murder spread.
SP Yamuna Prasad who reached the spot that falls under Behjoi police station, soon after the murders, said that a manhunt has been launched for the assailants. He said that further investigations were underway and the bodies have been sent for post mortem.
Bengaluru, May 21:Tragedy struck an elderly migrant worker who was looking forward to joining his family as he died on reaching a nearby railway station to board a Shramik Special train to his home state Madhya Pradesh, police said on Thursday.
The 69-year old man, who worked in a coffee estate in Chikkamagaluru, collapsed and died soon after getting down from a state-run KSRTC bus that brought him and others to the Chikkabanavara Railway station on Wednesday.
According to police, fellow labourers said he had been ailing for quite some time.
The cause of his death would be known only after a post-mortem, police added.
Karnataka government has been sending back thousands of migrant workers stranded in the state due to the COVID-19 lockdown by arranging the special trains.
Five Bajrang Dal activists have been arrested for allegedly indulging in vandalism in the city on Valentines Day, police said.
They said about 10 to 15 activists on two wheelers vandalised a shop in Kattupalli area in Hyderabad on February 14.
Bajrang dal workers vandalize shops in Hyderabad's Gachibowli area (hitech City). The state police, which was so proactive in curbing anti-CAA/NRC protests, couldn't prevent vandalism from anti-social elements. Video courtesy: @Asifyarrkhan pic.twitter.com/TH6WLYZXiH
— Yunus Lasania (@lasaniayunus) February 14, 2020
Bajrang Dal Goons Created Terror at a Mall in Gachibowli & Vandalises the Infrastructure & Most Shocking Mall is Very Near to Cyberabad Police HQ
Any action against this..?@cyberabadpolice @TelanganaCMO@cpcybd @TelanganaDGP@amjedmbt @asadowaisi#Hyderabad #ValentinesDay2020 pic.twitter.com/AdQOOLxzQZ— (@SyedMoinBhai) February 14, 2020
They held aloft flags and raised slogans against celebration of Valentines Day and "created havoc" at different malls, a police press release said.
On receiving information, police rushed to a mall, but the Bajrang Dal activists escaped from the spot.
Five of them were later identified with the help of CCTV footage and arrested, police said.
The others too have been identified and efforts were on to nab them, police said.
Two cases have been registered against them under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code on a complaint from shop owners, the release said.
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