Daijiworld Media Network-Puttur (RJP)
Puttur, Mar 31: Puttur town police arrested 5 students relating to a fight among them and produced them in court on Thursday, March 30. All the accused were remanded to judicial custody.
Akshay, Nishanth, Abhishek, Karthik and Nitin are the arrested students.
As per the details available, the fight took place between two groups of students on Tuesday. One group consisted of locals while the other group consisted of students from outside Puttur. All belong to a private college here.
Two students named Vinuthraj (19) and Rajesh (19) got admitted to Puttur government hospital and alleged that a group of students attacked them with the intention of murder. Akshay, Nishanth, Abhishek, Karthik and Nitin were named in the complaint as culprits. Both these complainants stayed in paying guest (PG) accommodation, being outsiders in town.
At the same time Karthik (19) and Jitendra (19) also got admitted to the same hospital and complained that they were attacked by a group of students. Vinuthraj, Yathindra, Thousif, Rajesh, Shashikanth, Bhagath, Dhanush and Gurudarshan were blamed for the attack.
Police, who took up both the complaints, investigated further and made the arrests. They were booked under section 307 of IPC. After being produced in court, they were sent to judicial custody.