Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (EP)
Udupi, Aug 12: Five miscreants who had allegedly waylaid Moodusagri resident Narasimha Nayak, assaulted and robbed him of his valuables are arrested.
On August 9 at around 1.15 am, Nayak was riding his bike on a road leading to Sagri School, Shivalli village in Manipal. A gang of five, waylaid Nayak and hit his leg with a wooden stick and then hit his head with his own helmet.
The miscreants then decamped with gold chain worth Rs 70,000, mobile phone worth Rs 29,000 and a purse that had ATM card, Aadhaar card, Voter ID and Rs 31,000 cash. A case of robbery was registered in Manipal police station on the basis of the complaint filed by Narasimha Nayak.
On August 12, police under the guidance from district SP Nisha James, additional SP Kumar Chandra, Udupi sub division police deputy SP T R Jaishanker, arrested Athish D’ Silva (22), resident of Kaup; Premnath (19), resident of Katpadi; Yogish (19), resident of Tenkanidiyoor village; Sandesh (18), resident of Aroor village and a minor boy.
Police have recovered a bike and Dio scooter used for robbery, Vivo mobile and documents of the complainant from the accused.
Arrested Athish D’ Silva, Sandesh and the minor boy have reportedly confessed another crime on sexually harassing a female student. A complaint on the same was registered in Manipal police station limits.
Manipal police station SI in-charge Sampat Kumar, ASI Sridhar Nambiar, ASI Umesh Jogi, Diwaker Sharma and staff Abdul Razak, Prasanna Kumar, Thomson, Pravin, Santhosh, Adarsh, jeep driver Suresh Naik and Sudeep Sathish participated in the operation.