Waterlogging at sub-way near Workshop Road
The Hindu
Police divert vehicular movement for over six hours
MADURAI
The downpour in the wee hours of Tuesday resulted in water-logging at the sub-way connecting the Workshop Road and Arapalayam that police had to divert the vehicular movement for over six hours.
The rain, which had hit the normal life over the last one week, pounded the low-lying areas on Tuesday. Many pockets in Sellur were inundated and the woes of the residents in a majority of the added wards were terrible.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.
The Deputy Commissioner and the Election Officer for Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency M. P. Mullai Muhilan said here on Friday that over 600 staff will be involved in the counting of votes cast in the April 26 elections, at the counting centre at the National Institute of Technology – Karnataka, Surathkal, on June 4.