Cops tag lawyer as rowdy

BANGALORE: Pulikeshinagar police declared a practising lawyer as a rowdy after they found he was involved in five criminal cases.
Police said A Sudhakar, a resident of Lazar Lyout, was involved in three cases in Pulikeshinagar and one each in Commercial Street and Ashoknagar police stations.
"We have written to the Bar Council to suspend his license to practise as a lawyer and we're yet to receive a reply.In Pulikeshinagar, he was allegedly involved in an assaulting a woman and robbing her last year. A case was taken up and later we found he was involved in four other cases. Following this, we opened a rowdysheet against him in Pulikeshinagar police station," said a police officer.
Killed in mishap: An 18-year-old painter Chethan was killed after he was knocked down from his motorcycle by a water tanker tractor and its rear wheels ran over him on Monday evening.
Chethan, a resident of Nagavara, was on his way to his grandmother's house in Ramamurthynagar when the accident occurred on the Ramamurthynagar-Kalkere main road. Chethan was rushed to Koshy's Hospital nearby where he died while undergoing treatment around 9pm, police said.