Crime

The incident took place on the Baikampady highway near Surathkal in Mangalore. Vikas, a gold trader from Payyannur, Kerala, was returning in a Swift car with his family from a wedding in Sangli, Maharashtra.While he was coming from Udupi towards Mangaluru, a group of miscreants in two Innovas and one Swift car blocked his car near the Baikampady gate. Vikas was then taken out of the car. Then the robbers drove away alone. Vikas’ wife and son, who were in the car at that time, were also threatened and taken away in the car.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two main accused who were absconding in connection with the murder case of BJP Yuva Morcha leader Praveen Nettaru of Dakshina Kannada district, which created a stir across the country. Naushad (32), a resident of Poyyegudde in Padangadi village in Belthangady taluk of Dakshina Kannada district, was arrested in Bengaluru, while Abdul Nasir (41), a resident of Chaudli Convent Road in Somwarpet taluk of Kodagu district, was detained in Kochi, Kerala.

Police have arrested the accused who hacked a young woman to death with a machete at a bus stand for refusing to marry her. Bantwal police have arrested Chetan, a distant relative of Lavanya, a resident of Kakkepadavu in Bantwal, from Pacchanadi in Mangaluru. 

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested Umar Farooq M.R., the main accused in the gruesome murder case of Praveen Nettaru. Umar Farooq was arrested in Kochi, Kerala, in a special operation conducted by a team of NIA officers based on reliable intelligence inputs. With his arrest, the total number of accused arrested so far in the Praveen Nettaru murder case has increased to 25.

A fight broke out between Xerox shop owners and customers over a document accidentally burning while being laminated in Putturu, Dakshina Kannada district. Fatima and Mubashira, residents of Mandekolu in Sullia, had come to the Janaseva Xerox shop owned by Sudarshan Pai in Darbe to get documents laminated. During this, a document accidentally got burnt. A heated argument broke out between the shop owner Sudarshan Pai and the women over this issue.