Bantwal: Sangh Parivar Activist Seriously Injured in Miscreants’ Attack
Daijiworld Media Network – Bantwal (MM)
Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje
Bantwal, May 21: Some unidentified miscreants attacked a Sangh Parivar activist and injured him seriously at B C Road here on Tuesday, May 20 night.
The injured person has been identified as Raviraj (36) who has been serving as convener of Bantwal taluk Hindu Jagaran Vedike. He was running a Xerox shop in B C Road town.
The miscreants hacked him with sabres while he was closing down the shutter of his shop at about 10.15 pm. He sustained serious injuries in his head, back and hands. He was immediately taken to a private hospital at Mangalore.
SP Satheesh Kumar, additional SP Siddaramappa, DySP Dharmaiah, former minister Nagaraj Shetty visited the injured in the hospital.
Sources said that the attack might have been to avenge the murder of autorickshaw driver Iqbal who was hacked to death recently. However, no other details are available as of now and Bantwal police have already initiated enquiry into the matter.