Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network – Bantwal (SP)
Bantwal, Apr 28: Collection of toll at the toll plaza set up by National Highways Authority of India at Brahmarakootlu on national highway 66, which had been suspended following attack by vandals on Saturday April 27, resumed on Sunday.
The contractors decided to open the toll collection windows, after the district superintendent of police (SP), who visited the spot following a series of disturbances at this toll plaza, promised to provide security by deputing personnel from the reserve police force.
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Gopalakrishna Melanta, who holds contract for toll collection at this plaza, said that the collection had begun based on the promise of the police department. Additional policemen have already been posted at the gate, and the work of conducting repairs and replacement relating to things that were either damaged or destroyed, has been undertaken.
The policemen said that in spite of launching widespread hunt for nabbing the culprits involved with the disturbances which occurred at the plaza on Saturday, they have yet to taste any success. SP, Dr Sharanappa, has camped at B C Road to guide the teams involved with the above incident. Different teams are conducting searches for two of the accused, whose actions were caught by the closed circuit tv cameras installed at the gate.
For the police department, this incident has posed a challenge, as there are allegations that repeated attacks on the gate could be possible only because of the failure of the police department. The SP, who has camped at the town police station of Bantwal, is personally supervising the law and order situation in the area, and has lent a sense of urgency to the investigation.
One of the accused was injured during the said incident at the toll plaza, and he got admitted into a hospital in Mangalore. The policemen, who have information about this, are waiting near the hospital to arrest him as soon as he is discharged by the hospital, it is said. The police calculation is that his arrest will make it easier to catch hold of others involved with the crime.