A speeding private city bus reportedly ran over a youth and injured another at Bendoorwell bus stop here on Thursday. Police gave the name of the deceased as Tilakraj (20), a native of Panemangalore, who was working as an electrician at Marnamikatta. Police said that Tilakraj and his friend Pradeep were waiting for a bus (route number 5) to Marnamikatta at Bendoorwell bus stop when the route number 51 bus from the city to Konaje allegedly hit them in a bid to overtake another bus. The bus ran over Tilakraj and injured his friend Pradeep.
Tension prevailed in the area for sometime with a large crowd gathering resulting in a traffic remaining hit for some time. Police who arrived on the spot seized the bus. Kadri police have registered a case.
Murder accused arrestedIn a major breakthrough, the police have rearrested a 40-year-old man, accused of brutally murdering an 18-year-old girl inside her house near Kumbla in 2006.
Ummer Byari, hailing from Belthangady, was rearrested from Nasik in Maharashtra by a police team deputed by Kasaragod Deputy Superintendent of Police T.P. Renjith on Thursday. Ummer had absconded after getting bail in the murder case from the Kerala High Court, Mr. Renjith said.
Ummer, who was working as a government contractor in Nasik, was being brought here by the police team, which arrested him after verifying the details of calls made to his wife’s cell phone, he said. Mr. Renjith said the girl, Fatimat Suhra of Uluvar, near Kumbla, had refused the plea of Ummer, who was married, to enter into a relationship with him.
Infuriated by the girl’s refusal, Ummer, who was working on the premises of a nearby mosque, climbed a coconut tree and lifting the roof tiles of the house, entered Fatimat’s room early in the morning on December 28, 2006. He slashed her throat and escaped even as her mother and younger sister slept in another room.
He was arrested the next day by a team led by Mr. Renjith, who was then posted as Kumbla circle inspector.
Chain snatchingTwo youth on a motorcycle allegedly snatched a woman’s mangalsutra and made away with it at Naguri in the city at about 3.10 p.m. on Wednesday.
The incident happened on the S.N. Temple Road. Mangalore rural police have registered a case. The mangalasutra was worth Rs. 1 lakh, said the police.
Fire at plywood factoryA boiler unit at a plywood factory at Talapady, in Kerala, about 15 km from here caught fire at about 10 p.m. According to H.S. Varadarajan, Chief Fire Officer, Dakshina Kannada, a fire tender was sent from Mangalore on request from his counterparts in Kasaragod. The wood did not catch fire.
Vehicle catches flamesA sports utility vehicle was gutted by fire that sparked from the battery unit of the vehicle near Manjeswaram on Thursday. The incident occurred around 11 a.m. as Premchandra Prabhu, who was proceeding towards Mangalore, noticed smoke emanating from the battery unit and went out to request the services of an automobile mechanic nearby.
However, the fire spread fast even though the local people, assisted by personnel from nearby Uppala fire station tried containing the raging fire in the vehicle parked beside the National Highway at Koroda locality.
The fire, suspected to have been sparked due to electric short circuit, created a scare, they said.
