Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)
Udupi, Sp 4: A few youth, said to be Bajrang Dal workers, assaulted a bus driver at Hejmadi near Padubidri on the night of Wednesday September 3, for frivolous reasons.
The youth targeted Ismail, a bus driver residing at S S Road, Hejmadi. Pandurang, Harish, Navin, Anant and Sudesh Shetty have been named as the assailants. It is said, the gang, pertaining to the Sarvajanika Ganeshotsav Committee being celebrated near the bus stand circle in Hejmadi, started a friction with the driver on trivial reasons and then assaulted him.
Injured Ismail has been admitted into a hospital here. Padubidri police have registered a case.