3 IAF personnel 'assault' auto driver; one arrested

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, APRIL 23. Three Indian Air Force personnel including a Flying Officer allegedly assaulted an autorickshaw driver following an altercation on Sunday night.

According to police, six IAF personnel asked an autorickshaw driver to take them to Jalahalli from M.G. Road at 10 p.m. When the autorickshaw driver, Mr. Nagaraj, said he could not take more than three passengers, three of the Air Force personnel engaged the autorickshaw.

When the vehicle reached the Sadashivanagar junction, a quarrel broke out between Mr. Nagaraj and the passengers, and they allegedly tore the tarpaulin roof of the vehicle, and assaulted Mr. Nagaraj.

Even as he was shouting for help, a police team rushed to the spot and apprehended one of the three IAF personnel -- Mr. R.N. Bhat, a Flying Officer.

Mr. Bhat was handed over to the Military Police. A case was registered with Sadashivanagar police and later transferred to the Military Police.

76 arrested: The City Police on Sunday raided five live bands and arrested 76 persons including 52 live band singers.

They raided live bands at Gandhinagar and on St. Mark's Road, and booked cases for violation of the Excise Act and the Karnataka Police Act. Cases against the live band owners have been registered in the Cubbon Park and Upparpet police station limits.

`Dowry harassment': An employee of the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADE) has lodged a complaint of dowry harassment against her husband and her sister-in-laws.

According to police, Ms. Yella Devi (36) of Kaggadasapura, C.V. Raman Nagar, married Nataraj in 1999. Nataraj took loans from several people, and he along with his sisters -- Tilaka, Savitha and Meera -- allegedly harassed Ms. Yella Devi to bring a dowry of Rs. 1 lakh.

Nataraj and his sisters reportedly made death threats against Yella Devi, and threatened to kill her baby who is eight months old. She has left Nataraj's house and is living in her mother's house.

The Mahadevapura police have registered a case.

Body found: Fire Force personnel recovered a body from the Sankey Tank in Sadashivanagar on Monday evening. The Vyalikaval police have registered a case of unnatural death.

House burgled: Burglars broke into the residence of Mr. Rama Reddy in the S.D. Bed area at Viveknagar on Saturday, and took away household articles.

The incident came to light when Mr. Reddy's brother, Mr. Prabhakara Reddy, returned to Bangalore on Sunday. They had left the City to attend a wedding. The value of the stolen goods is yet to be ascertained.

The Viveknagar police have registered a case.

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