Passenger arrested for killing MSRTC bus conductor in Nagpur

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A ticketless passenger was held after allegedly assaulting him Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) A bus conductor in Nagpur on Friday, a police officer said, according to PTI.

The Kondhali police station official said the suspect, identified as Firoz Shaikh Noor Shaikh (32), a resident of Hingna in Maharashtra’s Nagpur district, has been arrested by the police, PTI reported on Friday.

“He hit conductor Yogesh Namdev Kale after an altercation in the bus, which was going from Nagpur to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. The incident took place at 9:30 am when Kale asked Shaikh for his ticket. He attacked Kale on the head with his steel Did “toughen up,” the officer said, the news agency reported.

According to PTI, the officer said, “Other passengers caught hold of Shaikh and the driver brought the bus to the police station. Shaikh has been charged with obstructing a government servant from performing duty, criminal intimidation and voluntarily causing hurt. “

A person damaged an EVM with an iron object at a polling booth; taken into custody

Meanwhile, in another incident, a 26-year-old man who had come to cast his vote for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 at a polling booth in Maharashtra’s Rampuri allegedly damaged the electronic voting machine (EVM) by hitting it with an iron object. “in Nanded district on Friday, a police officer told PTI.

According to PTI, the police detained the man, who told them that he wanted a pro-farmer and pro-labor government.

“The man, Bhaiyasaheb Edke, is a local resident and a registered voter of Rampuri booth. He had come to the polling booth to cast his vote, but damaged an EVM with an iron object. He was immediately detained and The voting process continued soon. “The broken machine was replaced with a new one,” Nanded Superintendent of Police (SP) Shri Krishna Kokate told PTI.

Police He said that investigation has been started to find out the motive behind their act of damaging the EVMs.

“The man says he wants a pro-farmer and pro-labor government. We are trying to find out if he is associated with any political party. He is well educated and did courses in law and journalism He was in Pune for 10 months before returning to his village, the news agency said on Friday.

(With PTI inputs)