Man involved in 2009 Jabbar murder case murdered in Kasargod

January 26, 2014

Kasargod, Jan 26: Unidentified assailants hacked a 39-year-old man to death on Paivalike - Chevar road on Saturday night.

The deceased is Balige Azeez, a resident of Paivalike in Kasargod.

He was one of the accused in sensational murder case of Youth congress leader Abdul Jabbar in 2009.

He was driving home from Kasargod when an Ambassador car hit his four-wheeler from behind. Sensing the danger Azeez alighted and began to run. However, the gangsters caught hold of him and attacked him with sharp weapons killing him on the spot.

The body was shifted to Kasargod general hospital.

Manjeshwar S I Sibi Thomas arrived at the crime spot. A case has been registered in

Manjeshwar police station have registed a case and further investigations are on.

In March 2012, a CBI Special Court convicted and awarded life imprisonment to seven persons, including Community Party of India (M) former Kumbala area secretary Sudhakara Master in the same case.

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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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