Daijiworld Media Network – Kundapur (SP)

Kundapur, May 31: In an incident that occurred early morning on Monday May 31 near Sangam Circle in the town, Sridhar (30), driver of a police jeep, was killed after robbers hit him with a knife. He was moving in the jeep along with the inspector of Byndoor police station, Kantaraj, to keep vigil on the highway, after getting information from the local police station that some robbers were threatening people and extorting money from them.

When their jeep reached Sangam Circle, they came face to face with a gang of robbers, who were being chased by the town policemen. In the tussle between the policemen and robbers, the jeep driver suffered a deep gash in his chest, when one of the robbers swished his knife at him. He lost his life on the spot.

The people then joined hands with the policemen in hunting for the robbers, and found them hiding near a bridge. Two of the robbers, both of whom were speaking Malayalam and Hindi, were nabbed. District superintendent of police, Pravin Madhukar Pawar, and inspector, Vishwanath, rushed to the spot. Investigations are on.