Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Feb 20: A complaint was lodged with the district superintendent of police (SP) relating to the assault on Shafi (26) a jeep driver from Sullia taluk. Shafi was allegedly beaten up and robbed by unidentified persons at Dolpady near Kadaba when he asked them hire charges on his jeep. The incident reportedly occurred on the night of Friday February 17.
Shafi, who is being treated in a private hospital here, has urged the SP to arrest the assaulters who also damaged his jeep, and take legal action against them.
Shafi, son of Iddu Kunhi from Marakkada in Kalmadka village in Sullia taluk, who works as a driver of a private jeep which commutes between Panja and Bellare, was washing his jeep in a canal in Panja, when he got a call on his mobile phone. The caller enquired about his whereabouts, and then arranged to hire his vehicle to Pulikukku near Kadaba.
At Kadaba Cross in Panja eight more persons boarded the jeep and asked to be taken to Dolpady Cross via Pulikukku and Yedamangala. When Shafi demanded hire charges, all the nine persons hit him with stones, hands, and legs. Shafi says that they also robbed Rs 6,000 from his possession, and stole tape recorder of the jeep. Shafi escaped from the clutches of the assaulters and ran away to a nearby house. After getting preliminary treatment in a hospital in Puttur, he was admitted into a hospital here for further treatment, he explained in his petition.
A case was registered in this connection at Kadaba police station. Investigation is on.