Mangaluru : Vittala Malekudiya, a postgraduate in Journalism and Mass Communication, who is facing charges of being a Maoist sympathiser and was unsuccessful in the gram panchayat election in Dakshina Kannada last year, is contesting the zilla panchayat election this time. Mr. Malekudiya filed his nomination papers for Dharmasthala Zilla Panchayat constituency from the Communist […]

Mangaluru : Vittala Malekudiya, who is facing charges of being a Maoist sympathiser, filed his nomination at Naravi Gram Panchayat on Saturday to contest the election from Kutlur constituency under the panchayat which is in Belthangady taluk. He, along with the workers of Communist Party of India (Marxist), filed the nomination at about 11.45 p.m. […]

Mangaluru : Vittala Malekudiya and his father, Linganna Malekudiya, have been charged by the police of having links with Maoists. The first hearing on the case — after the police filed a charge sheet before the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Belthangady, on January 30 — was on Wednesday. Vittala (25), a journalism degree holder, and […]

Puttur:  The fast track court in Puttur has permitted Vittal Malekudiya a first year post-graduate journalism student of Mangalore University to write his annual exams with police security. It may be recalled here that Vittal was arrested in March this year on the charges of Naxal links. The Puttur court order on Saturday comes close […]

Mangalore: Noted thinker Prof. GK Govind Rao has filed his strong objection to the police act of handcuffing Vittal who has been arrested on charges of Naxal links, while he wrote his annual exams at the Mangalore University. Prof. Rao who met Vittal at the Mangalore jail on May 14, Monday was speaking to reporters. […]

Mangalore : A. R. Infant, the director general of police (DGP) of Karnataka said that Anti Naxal Force (ANF) arrested Vittala Malekudiya, a student of mass communications and journalism at Mangalore University, with the proof against him. He was speaking at the press meet held at Mangalore Police Commissioner Office on April 12, Thursday. He […]