Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (SP) 

Puttur, Aug 14: The police personnel of the town station here have arrested five persons who have been accused of pelting stones at a bus at Polya and damaging it. The angry youth had attacked the private bus after the driver of a car died after colliding with the said bus on Monday August 12 at Polya in Kabaka village on Mani-Mysuru national highway. 

The arrested accused happen to be Siddique (33), K Hamza (38), Habib Fisal (29), Abdul Sameer (30),all from Kabaka village, and Ismail (23) from Kodippady village. 

In the said accident, car driver, Abdul Hakim, had lost his life. A gang, accusing the driver of callousness and reckless driving, had thrown stones at the bus. Loss due to damage to the bus has been put at Rs 60,000 by the owner of the bus, 'Dharitri', Sureshchandra. The bus owner had filed complained in the traffic police station here about the loss, acting upon which the above arrests were made.