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Temple priest arrested for stealing ornaments offered by devotees

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July 24, 2016

Mangaluru, Jul 23: The Kukke Subrahmanya police arrested the priest of Shankhapala Temple in Yenekal in Sullia Taluk on the charge of stealing ornaments offered by the devotees.

preistThe jurisdictional court handed over the accused to the police custody on Saturday.

An official release gave the name of the accused as Murali Venkatesh, son of H. Subrahmanya Bhat, a native of Sullia Taluk, who was presently residing at the temple.

According to a complaint from temple in-charge administrator Monappa, the ornaments including 32 gold finger rings and one gold chain were found missing between February 2 and July 15 from the safe locker of the temple, which is also famous for Ullalthi Bachchanayaka Daiva.

After the complaint was lodged, the priest, along with his family, were absconding and a special police team secured him from Bengaluru, the release said.

The accused priest had pledged some of the valuables at neighbouring villages and had sold some others.

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Rajesh Sequira
 - 
Monday, 25 Jul 2016

Did the god not stop him

Aslam
 - 
Monday, 25 Jul 2016

Naren Kotian, Awaiting for your valuable comment!!!

ali
 - 
Sunday, 24 Jul 2016

stealing in their blood. They gets training from RSS in lieng and stealing.

Priest are good in earning money by fooling people.

whenever they get failure to fool people then start stealing ornaments from idols.
They knows that idols doesnt need ornaments.

Sameer
 - 
Sunday, 24 Jul 2016

Kallaru swami ellelluu kallaru....

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February 11,2020

Udupi, Feb 11: The three patients, including a child, who were suspected to be suffering from coronavirus were discharged from hospital on Monday after the throat swab sample test proved negative for the infection.

The throat swabs of three persons, who were admitted to a district government hospital in Udupi with symptoms of fever on Friday, were sent to Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute for testing of coronavirus.

The trio had returned from China, 15 days ago.

The 30-year-old man from Kaup taluk had been to China on personal work and had returned to Udupi, 15 days ago. He had symptoms of fever, throat pain and cold and he was suggested to get admitted to hospital.

He was treated in the isolation ward.

A family from Mandarthi had gone on a tour to China and had returned 15 days ago. The father and son, who had complained of fever, were kept under observation at the isolation ward in the district government hospital.

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August 1,2020

Mangaluru/Udupi, Aug 1: Karnataka’s twin costal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi have recorded 10 more deaths related to covid-19. 

With four more deaths, Dakshina Kannada’s covid-19 death toll mounted to 159. Udupi’s covid-19 death toll mounted to 35 with 6 new deaths. 

Meanwhile, DK recorded 139 new covid positive cases. Among them 91 are from Mangaluru, 19 from Bantwal, 14 from Beltangady, nine from Puttur, and six from other districts.

With this, the total number of the covid-10 cases in DK reached 5,852. Out of these only 3,008 cases are currently active. 

On the other hand, Udupi recorded 136 new covid-19 cases. The total number of covid-19 cases reported in the district mounted to 4,492. 

According to the official bulletin, a total of 32,401 samples have been collected so far. Among them 27,463 have turned out to be negative and 446 reports are awaited.

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April 17,2020

Kasaragod, Apr 17: Even as this district continue to remain in the high-alert red zone category of Covid-19, Kasaragod has slowly but steadily been limping back to restraint level of the pandemic from a possible slipping into a stage-3 of community spread early this month.

Thanks to the stringent and committed measures implemented by the district administration crisscross the district besides total isolation of few localities by enforcing triple lockdown.

The district had been a Covid-19 hotspot ever since an NRI who returned from the Gulf violated quarantine protocol and travelled wide and far by meeting and contacting with several people including two MLAs of the district. That apart the irresponsible attitude of the people who broke the rules of quarantine and lockdown norms also made things go from bad to worse resulting in contributing for a near-half of the total positive cases in the state at the beginning of April.

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