Mangaluru : Third additional district and sessions court judge BB Jakati sentenced a Village accountant (VA) to four years of simple imprisonment, and imposed a fine of Rs 70,000 on him, after convicting him in a corruption case. The convict S Mahesh, VA of Mandekolu GP in Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada, was caught red-handed […]
Belthangady : A 48 year old man from Belthangady has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by the Additional Sessions Court in a case of raping a minor girl. The convict has also been slapped a penalty of Rs 50,000. The convict is Bobby. He was earlier charged with repeatedly raping the minor girl from […]
Mangaluru : The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Fast Track Sessions Court-1, (POCSO), Savithri V Bhat on Wednesday sentenced a 45-year-old driver to 15 years of Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) under section 6 of the POCSO Act, and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh under this section. Special Public Prosecutor Venkataramana Swamy said that the […]
Mangaluru: The third additional district and sessions court have been awarded life term imprisonment for a woman and her paramour for murdering the woman’s husband in 2016. Ashwini alias Mamata from Moodbidri Kukkudakatte Moodukonaje, and Anand Mera from the same village, guilty of the charges. Ashwini, a resident of Kukkudakatte in Moodbidri had married Jayaraj in […]
Udupi : The Principal District and Sessions Court on Thursday 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 ₹ 20,000 each, under Section 302 of Indian […]
Mangaluru:The Principal District and Sessions Court on Monday decided to fix the date of trial in the Bhaskar Shetty murder case on November 28. Shanthi Bai, Principal Public Prosecutor, told that the charges were read out against all the five accused in the case in the court here on Monday. But all of them denied […]
Mangaluru : The IV Additional District and Sessions Court has granted conditional anticipatory bail to five BJP and Sangh Parivar leaders who are facing the charges of conspiracy of stone pelting during the funeral procession of RSS worker Sharath Kumar Madivala on July 8. BJP state Backward community Morcha secretary Satyajith Surathkal, Bajrang Dal Prantha […]
Putturu : The V Additional District and Sessions Court, Puttur, on Tuesday allowed a petition filed by actor Vinod Alva seeking his enlargement on bail in a case of attempt to murder registered against him by the Puttur Town Police. However, the conditions set by the court were not known yet. A government advocate said […]
Mangalore : Ramesh (22) from Kanyana sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment by Dakshina Kannada district chief and sessions court, after finding him guilty of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl under Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The charge-sheet said Ramesh took the girl to Dharmasthala in September 2013, […]
Manipal : As many as five witnesses deposed before the District and Sessions Court in the Manipal gang-rape case here on Tuesday. A student of Manipal University from Kerala was abducted in an autorickshaw and gang-raped near Manipal on June 20, 2013. The police nabbed three suspects Yogesh Poojary, Hariprasad Poojary, and Anand on June […]
