Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (SP)
Puttur, Aug 1: In connection with an incident in which a car in which an astrologer and his friend were moving was intercepted and both the passengers were attacked, the town police on Tuesday July 31, arrested nine persons including two leaders of Hindu Jagran Vedike.
The arrested accused have been identified as Shashikanth (25), Chinmaya Rai (28), Krishnaprasad (40), Avinash Jogi (27), Avinash alias Abhi (21), Dinesh (32), Sachin Rai (32), Rakesh Panchodi (27) and Kartik (25).
D K Swamiji (43), an astrologer by profession, and his friend, Tejaksha Suvarna (23) residing near Marikamba temple, Maroli, Mangaluru, were travelling in a Maruti Ertiga car on the night of July 29, when a gang of 15 persons who arrived by a car and four motor bikes and reportedly waylaid them on Ullalthi Katte Road by the side of Nirala Bar and Restaurant on the main road of the town on the night of July 29. The complainants said that those who intercepted them used abusive words against them and beat them up with wooden piece.
A case in this connection was registered by the personnel of the town station here.