Bangalore Aug 4: Police today seized ivories worth Rs 75 lakh, snake skin and deer horns and arrested six people in this connection.

Police said Thimmegowda and Ganesh were arrested during a raid conducted on Venkateshwara Lodge here and on their information nine ivories were seized from a godown. Five people escaped during the raid.

In another raid on Navarang Lodge here, Raju, Annaiah, Krishnamurthy and Das were arrested and two ivories, one fax skin, one king cobra skin and one double-head snake were seized. The culprits had hunted these animals at Mutur Forest in Nagarahole and they were arrested, while trying to sell them in the city.

Two injured after pillar collapses

Close on the heels of the twin mishap during construction of Delhi Metro, two workers sustained minor injuries after a pillar under construction of the Bangalore Metro Project came down in the city today.

Police said the workers were preparing to fill concrete into one of the pillars on the CMH Road in posh Indira Nagar area when the steel rods completely bent down. The 40-feet long TMT steel bars used as fabrication for the pillar bent to one side of the road under the impact. Faulty basement of the pillar was said to be the cause of the mishap, as the pillar was the main support for the proposed CMH Road Railway Station, police added.

When contacted the Chief PRO of BMRCL B L Yeswant Chavan, however said the incident was minor.

Two workers sustained minor injuries and about ten other labourers escaped unhurt. The injured were treated at the nearby Chinmaya Mission hospital. While one identified as Viren Tudu (32) was admitted to the hospital as he suffered broken fingers and bruised chest and thigh, the other identified as Logan Sumir (24) was treated as outpatient. Both belonged to Orissa.

Bangalore Metro Railway Company Ltd(BMRCL) Managing Director N Sivasailam rushed to the spot and ordered an inquiry into the mishap.

Mr Sivasailam said, BMRCL had taken up a re-check of calculations, loading patterns, launching techniques and curved structures of the metro project in the city following Delhi mishaps.

Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa had ordered are-evaluation of the quality of the work and safety measures in place following the Delhi incident.

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