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29 animals recovered from ex-min’s farm house in K’taka

Acting on the tip off, the CCB and Davanagere forest officials raided the farm house situated behind the rice mill

The officials rescued two foxes, 10 spotted deer, 7 black bucks, 7 wild boars, 3 mongooses from the farm house. (HT)

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Published on Dec 23, 2022 12:53 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh I Edited by Shilpa Ambardar, Mysuru

Two college students suspended over ‘indecent behaviour’

Two private college students from different faiths were suspended for allegedly indulging in “indecent behaviour” on college premises in Belthangady town of Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka, police said on Thursday

The issue came to the fore after several posts about the incident were widely shared on social media platforms, after which the college management suspended both the students. (HT Photo)

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Published on Dec 23, 2022 12:48 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Gadag: Mother of 10-year-old boy thrown off balcony by teacher dies

The deceased has been identified as Geetha Barikera, a teacher of the Hadali government primary school in Naragund taluk of Gadag district, police said.

According to the police, the incident took place on December 19, when the accused guest teacher first beat up the boy on the first floor of the school premises and then threw him off the building, which lead to his death. (HT)

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Updated on Dec 23, 2022 12:47 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Fake job racket busted, Bescom engineer among 8 held: Police

“The accused persons had got the job in Bescom by creating fake documents and used to collect ₹35 to ₹40 lakh per post. The gang has provided six jobs since the last two years in Bescom,” police said.

All the accused have confessed to their crime, the police said. (Representative Photo)

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Published on Dec 22, 2022 12:29 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Guest teacher arrested for beating Class 4 student to death, say police

The special police team formed under deputy superintendent of police, YS Eganna, arrested Muthappa Hadagali (32) on Tuesday.

After the incident, the students were in a state of shock and were hesitant to attend the classes, the authorities said (Representative Photo)

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Published on Dec 21, 2022 12:51 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Palar bomb blast case: Veerappan aide released from jail

Jnanaprakash (68), serving life imprisonment, was suffering from cancer and was released by the Supreme Court on humanitarian grounds on November 26.

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Published on Dec 21, 2022 12:41 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

34-yr-old Jain man killed by Hindu in-laws in a case of hate crime: Cops

Police said 22-year-old Bagyashree Gowda was in a relationship with Bhujabala Karjagi for four years but her family, especially her father Thammana Gowda, opposed the union because Karjagi belonged to the Jain community while Bagyashree belonged to the dominant Kshatriya caste.

The police said the woman’s parents warned Karjagi to end the relationship but the couple eloped and got married in a court a year ago. (Representative Photo)

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Updated on Dec 20, 2022 09:51 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Mother of 2 girls raped by K’taka seer rejects govt job offer

The mother, who has currently taken shelter in the premises of an NGO, told the Chitradurga Child Welfare Committee (CWC) members on Thursday that she has no security in Chitradurga.

The woman, who is also the second accused in a case of conspiracy against Sri Jagadguru Murugharajendra (SJM) mutt, alleged that she was pressurised to withdraw complaint against the former pontiff.

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Updated on Dec 19, 2022 04:16 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Charge sheet filed in Kanchugal Bandemutt pontiff suicide case

The Magadi police on Friday submitted a 216-page charge sheet and named four accused in connection with the suicide of Kanchugal Bandemutt pontiff on Friday at the judicial magistrate of the first class in Chitradurga

Police submitted a 216-page charge sheet and named four accused in connection with the suicide of Kanchugal Bandemutt pontiff (Representative use)

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Published on Dec 17, 2022 12:25 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Former panchayat chief held in conspiracy case against SJM

In the first week of November, an audio clip went viral on social media where a man could be heard telling a woman to file a sexual harassment case against SJM pontiff Shivamurthy Sharanaru.

The Chitradurga police arrested former zilla panchayat president Sowbagya Basavarajan over a conspiracy case filed by SJM mutt. (Agencies)

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Updated on Dec 17, 2022 12:25 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Court restrains jailed seer from interfering in mutt activities

The police have filed two separate cases against Sharanaru under the Pocso Act after three minor girls complained of sexual harassment and rape.

Shivamurthy Sharanaru, facing two Pocso cases, is in judicial custody since September 2. (ANI)

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Published on Dec 16, 2022 12:35 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Clash over interfaith relationship in private Dakshina Kannada college, 18 students suspended

Eighteen students of a private Pre-University College in Dakshina Kannada’s Vitla were suspended last week allegedly after an interfaith relationship triggered a clash on the campus

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Published on Dec 15, 2022 12:06 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh

Retd IAS officer now admin of Chitradurga mutt

Prominent Lingayat leaders and elders had held a meeting and urged the state government to appoint a new pontiff and administrator to the SJM mutt after the arrest of Sharanaru, who is in judicial custody for three months.

SJM mutt pontiff Shivamurthy Sharanaru was arrested on September 2 on Pocso charges. (HT File)

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Published on Dec 14, 2022 12:24 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Seven cops booked for threatening right-wing worker in Mandya dist

The case was registered after the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal workers staged a protest onSaturdayalleging that police threatened the pro-Hindu worker in custody.

The Srirangapatna police in Mandya district booked seven police personnel for allegedly threatening a pro-Hindu worker (HT PHOTO)

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Published on Dec 11, 2022 11:52 PM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Pastor, kin booked for ‘forced’ conversions

According to the police, the priest and his family were running a church from several years in Karatagi town of the district.Karatagi sub-inspector B Nagaraju said the family was allegedly targeting poor Dalit families and converting them to christianity under threat.

The police in Koppal district booked a church pastor, his wife and minor son for allegedly carrying out forced religious conversions (HT Photo/Representative use)

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Updated on Dec 11, 2022 11:52 PM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Forest dept uses thermal drones to trace leopard in Mysuru

The search operation strategy was changed as the leopard continues to remain elusive, said one of the officials quoted above.

Karnataka forest department is now using thermal drone cameras in the search mission for the leopard in Mysuru. (HT Photo)

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Published on Dec 10, 2022 12:33 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Muslim couple threatened, prevented from watching ‘Kantara’ in Karnataka

The FIR has been registered under sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (assault), 504 (intentional insults) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.

According to eyewitnesses, the couple, both college students belonging to Kerala and studying in KVG institutions, came to watch the film at Santhosh theatre.

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Published on Dec 09, 2022 04:28 PM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh

Mysuru: Unable to afford transport, man carries wife’s body

Ravi, who lives in a tent in Yelandur, was spotted by the locals, who later helped him take the body for cremation.

According to police, his wife Kalamma died of an illness on Tuesday night. (Representative Photo)

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Published on Dec 08, 2022 12:13 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Mysuru admin asks farmers to harvest crop early to allow leopard search

The order came in the backdrop of forest officers raising concerns over the sugarcane fields hindering the combing operations to catch the leopard.

The forest department had launched a large-scale combing operation in T Narasipura region of Mysuru on December 2 to catch or kill the leopard. (HT Photo)

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Updated on Dec 07, 2022 12:10 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh I Edited by Shilpa Ambardar, Mysuru

Meet to remove Pocso accused as mutt pontiff ends in a chaos

The Lingayat leaders took a delegation to chief minister Basavaraja Bommai on October 14 and urged him to appoint a new pontiff and administrator for mutt.

Sri Jagadguru Murugharajendra (SJM) mutt pontiff Shivamurthy Sharana has been in custody since September 1 in the case under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act

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Published on Dec 03, 2022 11:45 PM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Dalit man dies by suicide after assault in Kolar district: Police

The alleged assault on the deceased took place in Mulabagil Taluk on November 30, said Nangali sub-inspector Pradeep Singh.

According to the family members of the deceased, he was travelling on a motorcycle with a friend on the day of the incident and overtook a man identified as Raju, who belongs to the “upper caste”. (Representative Photo)

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Updated on Dec 03, 2022 03:28 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Chitradurga mutt served notice after activist files complaint seeking details of ‘missing’ orphans

Social activist and RTI worker B H Gowdru filed the complaint on November 25, a copy of which HT has seen. Following the complaint, the state child rights commission served a notice to the mutt on Friday.

According to the complaint, the SJM mutt pontiff and sole managing trustee Shivamurthy Sharanaru has been running three shelters for children on mutt premises from 2001. (Representative Photo)

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Published on Dec 02, 2022 11:57 PM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Addanda Cariappa files police complaint over alleged death threats

Cariappa faced criticism for his book which was released on November 13. The book allegedly portrays hatred towards the Muslim community and 18th-century ruler Tipu Sultan

Author and director of controversial Kannada book and play titled ‘Tipu Nijakanasugalu’ Addanda Cariappa (PTI Photo)

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Published on Dec 01, 2022 08:03 PM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh

Dome-shaped structures on Mysuru bus stop removed

Local authorities on Saturday night demolished the two domes constructed on top of a bus stop in Mysuru which had resulted in a controversy between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA SA Ramdas and the party’s Mysuru MP Pratap Simha

The bus stop was constructed at an estimated cost of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>10 lakh from the MLA area development grants. (HT Photo)

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Published on Nov 28, 2022 12:34 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Elephant set to carry howdah in next Dussehra dies in attack by rouge tusker

An elephant pitched to be the successor to carry the golden howdah during the next years’s Dussehra celebration in Mysuru, died on Wednesday from injuries sustained in a fight with another elephant in the district’s Hunsur city, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday

38-year-old Gopalaswamy was to succeed Abhimanyu, the elephant who is set to retire. (HT Photo)

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Published on Nov 25, 2022 12:27 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh I Edited by Shilpa Ambardar, Mysuru

K’taka: Leopard scare forces KRS reservoir closure, tourists dejected

Mandya assistant conservator of forests Mahadeva Swamy said the safety of the people is the utmost priority.

The leopard was first spotted near the reservoir in October third week. (HT Photo)

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Published on Nov 23, 2022 08:10 PM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Tank ‘purified’ after Dalit woman drinks water from it

The Dalit woman from another place came to Heggatora village on Saturday and drank water from the storage tank set up on an upper-caste locality.

Soon after the incident went viral on social media, the tehsildar and social welfare department officials rushed to spot and conducted an enquiry. (Representative photo)

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Published on Nov 21, 2022 12:52 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

K’taka: After 5-day search, forest dept tracks three tiger cubs

Nagarhole wildlife sanctuary director Harshakumar Chikkanaragund said on Wednesday that a massive search operation was mounted on Saturday involving more than 150 department officials to track down the cubs

The cubs were missing since their mother, a 12-13 year old tigress who was named informally as ‘Nyangachchikatte Female’, was found dead in a field in Taraka village near the reserve on Saturday. (HT photo)

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Updated on Nov 17, 2022 12:28 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Probe ordered into ‘lapses’ in adoption centre run by K’taka mutt

The move came after Mysuru based-NGO filed a petition before the SCRPC alleging that the SJM mutt was illegally running the Akkamahadevi hostel for orphans .

The former pontiff of the mutt, Shivamurthy Sharanaru, has been accused of sexually assaulting at least four minor girls. (HT Photo)

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Published on Nov 16, 2022 12:25 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh, Mysuru

Seer called minor to his room, raped her multiple times, says charge sheet

The 64-year-old seer would summon the teenager after everyone went to bed and rape her and ensured she left before the others woke up, the charge sheet said.

Sharanaru, who has been accused of sexually assaulting at least two girls studying in a high school run by Jagadguru Murugarajendra Vidyapeetha Mutt, is currently in Chitradurga jail.

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Updated on Nov 14, 2022 04:59 AM IST

ByCoovercolly Indresh

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Acting on the tip off, the CCB and Davanagere forest officials raided the farm house situated behind the rice mill

Two private college students from different faiths were suspended for allegedly indulging in “indecent behaviour” on college premises in Belthangady town of Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka, police said on Thursday

The deceased has been identified as Geetha Barikera, a teacher of the Hadali government primary school in Naragund taluk of Gadag district, police said.

“The accused persons had got the job in Bescom by creating fake documents and used to collect ₹35 to ₹40 lakh per post. The gang has provided six jobs since the last two years in Bescom,” police said.

The special police team formed under deputy superintendent of police, YS Eganna, arrested Muthappa Hadagali (32) on Tuesday.

Jnanaprakash (68), serving life imprisonment, was suffering from cancer and was released by the Supreme Court on humanitarian grounds on November 26.

Police said 22-year-old Bagyashree Gowda was in a relationship with Bhujabala Karjagi for four years but her family, especially her father Thammana Gowda, opposed the union because Karjagi belonged to the Jain community while Bagyashree belonged to the dominant Kshatriya caste.

The mother, who has currently taken shelter in the premises of an NGO, told the Chitradurga Child Welfare Committee (CWC) members on Thursday that she has no security in Chitradurga.

The Magadi police on Friday submitted a 216-page charge sheet and named four accused in connection with the suicide of Kanchugal Bandemutt pontiff on Friday at the judicial magistrate of the first class in Chitradurga

In the first week of November, an audio clip went viral on social media where a man could be heard telling a woman to file a sexual harassment case against SJM pontiff Shivamurthy Sharanaru.

The police have filed two separate cases against Sharanaru under the Pocso Act after three minor girls complained of sexual harassment and rape.

Eighteen students of a private Pre-University College in Dakshina Kannada’s Vitla were suspended last week allegedly after an interfaith relationship triggered a clash on the campus

Prominent Lingayat leaders and elders had held a meeting and urged the state government to appoint a new pontiff and administrator to the SJM mutt after the arrest of Sharanaru, who is in judicial custody for three months.

The case was registered after the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal workers staged a protest onSaturdayalleging that police threatened the pro-Hindu worker in custody.

According to the police, the priest and his family were running a church from several years in Karatagi town of the district.Karatagi sub-inspector B Nagaraju said the family was allegedly targeting poor Dalit families and converting them to christianity under threat.

The search operation strategy was changed as the leopard continues to remain elusive, said one of the officials quoted above.

The FIR has been registered under sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (assault), 504 (intentional insults) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.

Ravi, who lives in a tent in Yelandur, was spotted by the locals, who later helped him take the body for cremation.

The order came in the backdrop of forest officers raising concerns over the sugarcane fields hindering the combing operations to catch the leopard.

The Lingayat leaders took a delegation to chief minister Basavaraja Bommai on October 14 and urged him to appoint a new pontiff and administrator for mutt.

The alleged assault on the deceased took place in Mulabagil Taluk on November 30, said Nangali sub-inspector Pradeep Singh.

Social activist and RTI worker B H Gowdru filed the complaint on November 25, a copy of which HT has seen. Following the complaint, the state child rights commission served a notice to the mutt on Friday.

Cariappa faced criticism for his book which was released on November 13. The book allegedly portrays hatred towards the Muslim community and 18th-century ruler Tipu Sultan

Local authorities on Saturday night demolished the two domes constructed on top of a bus stop in Mysuru which had resulted in a controversy between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA SA Ramdas and the party’s Mysuru MP Pratap Simha

An elephant pitched to be the successor to carry the golden howdah during the next years’s Dussehra celebration in Mysuru, died on Wednesday from injuries sustained in a fight with another elephant in the district’s Hunsur city, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday

Mandya assistant conservator of forests Mahadeva Swamy said the safety of the people is the utmost priority.

The Dalit woman from another place came to Heggatora village on Saturday and drank water from the storage tank set up on an upper-caste locality.

Nagarhole wildlife sanctuary director Harshakumar Chikkanaragund said on Wednesday that a massive search operation was mounted on Saturday involving more than 150 department officials to track down the cubs

The move came after Mysuru based-NGO filed a petition before the SCRPC alleging that the SJM mutt was illegally running the Akkamahadevi hostel for orphans .

The 64-year-old seer would summon the teenager after everyone went to bed and rape her and ensured she left before the others woke up, the charge sheet said.

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