Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Jan 5: In a disturbing disclosure made by the police personnel who were involved with the chasing of the car in which Deepak Rao's killers were seated, it has transpired that the killers had tried to kill Mulky station police sub-inspector by crushing him under their car.

The personnel stated that within minutes since the miscreants hacked Deepak to death at Katipalla, local people conveyed information to police control room. The person who made this call gave details of the type of the car, its colour, registration number etc. With these leads in hand, the police personnel jumped into the task.

As the information spread, police personnel of Suratkal and surrounding areas got on high alert and geared themselves for conducting operation to nab the culprits. Within sometime, the police got to know that the car was moving in the direction of Kinnigoli. When this information came, Mulky police sub-inspector, Sheetal Kumar Alagoor, was busy investigating a murder case at Kinnigoli. The police immediately asked home guards on duty at the barricade to be vigilant.

Sub-inspector,Sheetal Kumar, along with assistant sub-inspector, Chandrashekhar, and police constables were ready for action when the team got information that Naushad and three other accused were escaping in that route. Immediately Sheetal Kumar and his team rushed to the house of Naushad at Ullanje as they felt that the accused might reach there, take bath, change their clothes, and escape to neighbouring states,duly collecting money from home. They waited near the house of Naushad when the car in which the culprits were seated came that way at high speed. Sheetal Kumar prepared to block the car.

Realizing that chance of escaping was bleak, Naushad, who was driving the car, directly drove the car on Sheetal Kumar. Kumar jumped aside into the drain at the last minute, and saved himself from imminent danger.

Police then began to chase the car of the miscreants from Ullanje as their car moved through Kateel, Niddodi, Muchchoor, Yedapadavu and on Mijafguthu road. As it was evening, many vehicles carrying school children were moving on the road, which hindered the speed of the culprits. This helped the police in their chase. people moving on the road also pointed out to the polcie the route by which the Maruti Swift car of the culprits was moving. Police feel that Naushad was driving his car at 110 km per hour. A couple of times, the police fired at the car but the accused escaped by getting shelter under the seats. Finally the car got stuck at a minor bridge after which the police apprehended those inside the car.