INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Bengaluru: Former Congress mayor R Sampath Raj, who was wanted in the Bengaluru violence case that left four people dead, has been arrested,
police sources said on Tuesday.Sampath Raj, the Congress corporator from Devara Jeevanahalli municipal ward, was arrested in Bengaluru, the
recently arrested one of his aides Riyazuddin who had helped him and another Congress corporator Abdul Rakeeb Zakir to escape
He had given them shelter at Nagarhole in Mysuru.Zakir is also wanted in the Bengaluru violence case.Raj was wanted in connection with the
cases related to the violence that rocked parts of the city on August 11
Around 3,000 to 4,000 people went on a rampage, setting ablaze the houses of Pulakeshinagar Congress MLA R Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy and his
stations over suspicion that the nephew was present there
Three people were killed in police firing while another person died due to abdominal injuries suffered in the violence.In the charge sheet,
Raj has been charged with hatching a conspiracy with the violence to finish off the MLA politically in connivance with Zakir and a few
Raj and Zakir were still at large and a hunt was on to nab them, police had said.
