Four get life sentence in 2011 jail murder case

coastaldigest.com web desk

March 29, 2019

Udupi, Mar 29: A local court here has sentenced four persons in the murder of an undertrial, Vinod Shettigar, which took place at the District Jail at Anjar near Hiriyadka in Udupi district on January 14, 2011, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs. 20,000 each, under Section 302 of Indian Penal Code, on them.

Shanthi Bai, Principal Public Prosecutor, said here on Thursday that the Principal District and Sessions Court Judge, C.M. Joshi, had found the four persons guilty in the Vinod Shettigar murder.

The four persons sentenced in the case are Muthappa (36), Nagaraj Balegar (33), Sheikh Riaz (33) and Sharanappa (33).

The court had also sentenced these four persons to three years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs. 5,000 each under Section 326 (Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means) of IPC, one year imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 2,000 each under Section 353 (Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of IPC, and one year imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 2,000 each under Section 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC, Ms. Shanthi Bai said.

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BJP fields Kishore Kumar Puttur from DK-Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency

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October 1,2024

The BJP has selected Kishore Kumar Puttur as its candidate for the bypoll to Karnataka Legislative Council from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency. The by-election will be held on October 21.

Kishore Kumar is presently serving as the General Secretary of Dakshina Kannada BJP unit. He had served as vice president of State BJP Yuva Morcha from 2014 to 2016.

The by-election will be held to the seat vacated by Kota Srinivas Poojary of the BJP who has been elected as the Lok Sabha member from Udupi-Chikmagaluru Lok Sabha constituency. The vacancy was created on June 15, 2024 following Poojary’s resignation to the Council. His term in the council was till January, 2028.

In the last Council election held for the dual member constituency in December 2021, Poojary had secured 3,672 votes while the Congress candidate Manjunath Bhandary had secured 2079 votes. Poojary and Bhandary had secured required votes from the first preferential votes and had won the election.

There were several aspirants for the BJP ticket including former MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK BJP president Satish Kumpala, Mangaluru divisional in-charge Uday Kumar Shetty, former minister Pramod Madhwaraj and former Udupi district BJP president Kuilady Suresh Nayak.

The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the election. KPCC working president Manjunath Bhandary in a recent press meet in Mangaluru had said that an opportunity will be given to congress leaders from Udupi district to contest by-election.

The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency has 6037 voters including 3551 from Dakshina Kannada comprising eight MLAs, one MP. The last date for filing nomination is October 3 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination is October 7. The counting will be held on October 24.

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