Bike-borne miscreants murder a youth near Mangaluru

Youth stabbed, one dead, one injured in Dakshina Kannada; officials vow strict legal action against attackers.

A youth died and another was injured when two motorcycle-borne miscreants allegedly stabbed them near Kolttamajalu under Bantwal rural police station limits in Dakshina Kannada on Tuesday.

The police identified the deceased as Abdul Rehman. Injured Kalandar Shafi was admitted to a private hospital, the police said.

According to eyewitnesses, the assailants attacked the youths while they were unloading sand from a four-wheeler. The assailants also damaged the windshield of the four-wheeler.

Condemning the attack, Minister in charge of Dakshina Kannada, Dinesh Gundu Rao, stated that he had spoken to Director General and Inspector General of Police M.A. Saleem and Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) R. Hithendra, and asked them to take strict legal action against the attackers.

The in-charge Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada, K. Anandh, and Superintendent of Police, N. Yathish, were asked to take necessary steps to maintain law and order. Officials were told to keep a closer vigil in sensitive areas, Mr. Rao stated.

While asking people not to get carried away by provocative statements, Dakshina Kannada district secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Muneer Katipalla, in a statement, held the State government responsible for the murder. The government has not taken effective action against BJP MLAs and Sangh Parivar activists for their inflammatory speeches, which led to Rehman’s murder, Mr. Katipalla alleged.

The murder on Tuesday occurred a month after the mob lynching of a 38-year-old rag picker, Ashraf of Kerala, near Kudupu in Mangaluru, on April 27. Four days later, 30-year-old double-murder accused and former Bajrang Dal activist Suhas Shetty was hacked to death by a group of assailants near Bajpe on May 1.