News: Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network – Bantwal (SP)

Bantwal, Nov 8: A gang of eight men reportedly assaulted the manager and cashier of a petrol bunk here on the evening of Sunday November 7, sighting silly reasons. In the incident, both the manager, Bhojaraj (40), and cashier, Navin (30), were injured  hospitalized. Personnel of the town police station here succeeded in arresting six men, while two others escaped.

The arrested accused persons have been identified as Kiran, Harish, Divyaraj, Charanraj, Tilak and Riaz from Ammunje Moodayikodi. The other two accused, Prashant and Roopesh, gave the policemen a slip at the time the operation to nab the culprits was on.

In the coupons issued on behalf of Indian Oil Company at Padma Service Station at B C Road, date of the lottery draw had been mentioned as November 7. The company officials had later notified the draw date as November 8, and the same was mentioned in the notice board in the petrol bunk. The gang, which visited the bunk on Sunday evening, raised objections about not conducting lottery draw on the date mentioned in the coupons, and assaulted the manager, to show their dissatisfaction at the clarification furnished by him.

A case has been registered by the policemen against these eight persons.