Yogesh K Porwar & Avanth Kumar Kankariya
A group of four college boys from city who went on a joy ride to Nandi hills and returning,drowned in Ramanathapura lake when they went to swim on Sunday.
The deceased have been identified as Faisal khan,19, Mohammed Israr,18,Sheikh Tahir,19 and Thouheed Ahmed,19.
The victims were from Chamundi Nagar in RT and studying PU in private college.
The victims went in a bike and scooter to Nandi hills and while retuning stopped at Ramanathapura lake. Police suspect that two of them initially took out clothes and shoes and ventured into the water.
Since they did not know swimming and started drowning.The two others Tahir and Thouheed jumped to their rescue and the four drowned .
The incident came to light when few villagers passing by found the bikes parked with clothes and no one was around.Suspecting something amiss they alerted Vishwanathapura police.
The police rushed to the spot and called a rescue team from rushed to the spot and recovered Faisal and Israr on Sunday evening while bodies of Tahir and Thouheed were recovered on Monday.
The bodies were handed over to the families after post-mortem.The police have registered a case of un natural death and are investigating .
