Mangaluru: Mangaluru city police have arrested five persons on the charge of assaulting an autorickshaw driver at Adyaru Padavu on the outskirts of Mangaluru on December 10.

The arrested persons are Ganesh, 24, Chethan Kumar, 21, Keerthiraj, 23, Suvith, 20, and Pareekshith, 21.

All the arrested hail from Bondanthila village in Mangaluru taluk.
Seven to eight persons had waylaid Mohammed Riyaz, 40, when he was driving and assaulted him with a cricket bat, iron rod and beer bottles.

City police commissioner N Shashi Kumar said the arrested five knew the victim. They had clashes between them in the past as well. Based on the complaint filed by Abdul Rehman, the younger brother of Riyaz, a case under various sections of the IPC was registered in Mangaluru rural police station.

The police had recovered a pair of ladies’ footwear from Riyaz’s car after he was assaulted.
Riyaz has cases registered against him in five different police stations, including three under the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act, said the commissioner.

It was alleged that Riyaz used to bring sex workers from Mandya, Hassan and other districts. “A detailed investigation is being conducted,” the commissioner said.

Info sought from FB

City police commissioner N Shashi Kumar said the police have written to Facebook, seeking help in tracing the identity of a few fake accounts that were used for spreading hate and derogatory messages on social media in connection with the tragic death of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and 12 others in the army helicopter crash.

“We have traced two authentic Facebook accounts. We will shortly detain them for further investigation. Meanwhile, a few have used fake Facebook accounts to post derogatory messages,” Kumar said.