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Bangalore
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BANGALORE, MAY 15. The city police arrested a five-member gang which had allegedly hired four vans from travel agencies in Bangalore and Goa and made away with the vehicles after allegedly murdering the drivers during 2002. The police gave the names of the arrested persons as Mujahid (20), a driver with a leading multinational software company, Mohammed Yasin Khan (20), a second year B.Com. student, Abdul Rahim (21), a cable technician, Raghu (22), a gardener in an MNC, and Arun Kumar (20), a painter. All the accused are residents of Marathalli here. The police said that on January 12, 2002, the accused hired a van from Sri Banashankari travel agency in J.P. Nagar to Mysore. On the way, they allegedly killed the driver, S.T. Ramesh, and threw his body near a culvert on Madikeri Road near Hunsur in Mysore district. On April 26, 2002, the gang hired a van from Kaveri Travels at Cottonpet and went to Mysore. The accused allegedly hacked to death the driver, Sadiq, near Chamundi Hills, and made away with the vehicle, the police said. The Billikere and Vijayanagar police in Mysore had registered separate cases of murder. During interrogation, the accused reportedly told the police that they had hired two vans from travel agencies in Goa in January 2002 and March 2002 and taken away the vehicles after murdering the drivers. The police said the accused had disposed of the four vehicles in Kerala. A team comprising Cottonpet police inspector, Yeshwanth Savarkar, and the sub-inspectors, K.P. Gopal and Siddanna, arrested the accused. The arrest of Mujahid and his gang reminds one of Ravindra Prasad, an automobile engineer from Mysore, who served life imprisonment for murdering taxi drivers in the eighties. Prasad had hired cars from Mysore and Mangalore, murdered the drivers and made away with the vehicles. Many of these murders had taken place in the ghat sections of Dakshina Kannada district.
Two end life
A 19-year-old girl committed suicide allegedly owing to her parents' opposition to her courtship with a boy. The Rajajinagar police said Mamata, daughter of a police sub-inspector, committed suicide by hanging herself in her room on Friday night in II Block. In another incident, a 28-year-old man committed suicide by hanging himself in his house in J.C. Nagar in Basaveshwarnagar police limits on Friday. He was said to be dejected after his wife died two months ago.
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