Mangalore : ‘Crime News’ weekly Journalist Ashok Bagambila (50) passed away in a hospital at Deralakatte here on Saturday July 5.

Bagambila was suffering from acute diabetes and had got admitted to a private hospital in Deralakatte last week. He unsuccessful to react the treatment and breathed his last on Saturday.

He survived by wife and a child. He owned a Kannada `Crime News’ weekly publishing from Bangalore. More than 20 years he ran his news paper. He was also a good script writer.