The incident took place at around 8:30 p.m. when the miscreants who came in a Ritz car bearing registration number KA 20 P 8328 waylaid a bus belonging to Vishal Travels near Udyavar.
BJP leader Yashpal Suvarna and four others, who alighted from the car dragged bus driver Dinesh and assaulted him brutally, sources said.
In his complaint injured Dinesh has stated that Suvarna and his accomplices were drunk when the assaulted him without any provocation.
When another private bus driver, Shamsuddin and others came to Dinesh's rescue, they were also attacked by the miscreants. It is learnt that the miscreants attacked four bus employees and three passengers on the road before fleeing the spot.
Source said that after waylaying Vishat Travels bus, the miscreants pelted stones at three more buses. Circle inspector Maruti Nayak and team visited the spot. A case has been registered at jurisdictional Kaup police station and investigations are on.
Protest
Following the incident, angry residents and bus employees staged a protest near Kaup bus stand.
The incident also prompted several private bus employees to go on strike. On Monday, several private express buses plying from Udupi to Kundapur, Karkala and Mangalore remained off the road.
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