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Lorry involved in accident found to be designed for smuggling spirit

Staff Reporter

The vehicle was involved in an accident last month

Thiruvananthapuram: The city police have found that a lorry involved in an accident last month was designed for smuggling spirit.

The lorry had collided with a motorbike last month, killing two youths. The accident had occurred at Pallitheruvu on the Kovalam-Eenchakal national highway bypass on April 7.

The deceased were identified as Rasi, 20, and Ansar Mon, 20, both residents of Kadackal. The youth were returning home after a pleasure trip to Kovalam when the accident occurred.

The lorry was coming in the opposite direction. The driver abandoned the lorry and escaped. The lorry's registration (TN-68-K-8345) was later found to be false. The lorry had been lying in front of the traffic police station for the past one month.

On Saturday, Deputy Commissioner of Police Harshita Attaluri received information that lorry's cargo hold was designed to hold spirit cans. She ordered Assistant Commissioner, District Crime Records Bureau, E. Sherifudeen to inspect the vehicle.

The official found that the cargo hold of the lorry had a false bottom, which could hold up to 100 plastic cans of 35 litre capacity each.

The Assistant Motor Vehicle Inspector and traffic police officials who inspected the lorry after the accident had failed to discover the secret cavity.

Assistant Commissioner, Traffic, South, Mohanan Nair said the traffic police had inspected the vehicle only from a motor accident reconstruction point of view. He said the police have found that the original registration number of the lorry was KL-13-P-8819. He said the lorry was registered in the name of a person at Kannur. Efforts were on to contact the registered owner.

Two killed in accidents

Two women were killed in accidents involving public transport buses in the city. Jubaira Beevi, 54, was killed when the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation city buses hit the scooter on which she and her husband were travelling. The accident occurred at 8 a.m. in front of the Government Secretariat. The schoolteacher, who was riding pillion, was knocked of the scooter and run over by the bus. Jubaira Beevi is a resident of Pournami Nagar near Manacaud Kallattumukku Second Street. Her husband, retired teacher Abdul Salam, who was driving the vehicle, escaped with minor injuries. Around 10 p.m., a 70-year-old pedestrian was fatally injured when she was hit by a private bus at East Fort. The police identified the deceased as Meenakshi, a resident of Vellar near Kovalam.

One stabbed

A 45-year-old man with serious stab injuries was admitted to the Medical College Hospital here.

The police identified the injured as Ismael, a resident of Poonthura. The police have detained Ismael's brother, Musthapha, in connection with the incident. An official said Musthapha had been trying to reform Ismael, who had allegedly relapsed to old ways after undergoing treatment for alcohol addiction.

The police said Ismael was stabbed with the shard of a broken glass tumbler after the brothers got into a brawl at a local toddy shop.

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