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Cyanide Mohan acquitted in 2005 Bantwal woman rape-murder case

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October 25, 2017

Mangaluru, Oct 25: The Karnataka high court on Tuesdayacquitted Mohan Kumar alias Cyanide Mohan in the rape and murder of 32-year-old Leelavati Mistry, a resident of Vamapadavu in Bantwal taluk, who was found dead at a KSRTC bus stand in Mysuru in September 2005.

A division bench comprising Justice Ravi Malimath and John Michael Cunha noted that both the postmortem and Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) reports only established the presence of organophosporous (insecticide), and the 'last seen' theory was not proved by the prosecution.

Partly allowing a criminal appeal filed by Mohan, the bench, however, upheld the trial court's order holding him guilty under section 392 of IPC (robbery), for which a five-year jail term was imposed.

However, the same was set off as Mohan had already spent seven years in jail since his arrest in July 2009.

On October 12, the court had commuted Mohan's death penalty to life sentence in the murder of 22-year-old Anitha who was found dead at a KSRTC bus stand in Hassan on June 18, 2009.

The third case in which Mohan was awarded the death penalty - the murder of Sunanda Pujari - will be taken up on October 31.

Took her to Mysuru on pretext of job interview. Leelavati was found dead in the urinal at the Mysuru bus stand on September 10, 2005.

The prosecution had alleged that Mohan befriended Leelavati in August 2005 claiming that he belonged to her caste and would marry her. On September 9, 2005, he took her to Mysuru from Bantwal on the pretext of an job interview.

He booked a room at a lodge and the duo checked in. Later, he allegedly raped her.

The next morning, he asked her to remove her ornaments and keep them in her bag to give the interviewers the impression that she belonged to a poor family.

He also gave her a pill laced with cyanide, claiming it was an 'anti-pregnancy medicine' and asked her to consume it in the lavatory. Then he checked out of the lodge and decamped with her jewellery.

On December 21, 2013, the IV additional sessions judge, Dakshina Kannada district, had awarded death penalty to Mohan in connection with the murders of Anitha, Leelavati and Sunanda.

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April 12,2020
Mangaluru, Apr 12: The spread of COVID-19 in the country has been contained through the prompt, effective and timely measures taken by the Centre, BJP Karnataka president and Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel said on Sunday.
 
The Centre brought in stringent regulations including the lockdown at the right time and ensured that the pandemic did not spread rapidly, he told reporters here.
 
Kateel inspected the railway coaches which have been converted into isolation wards for infected patients at the central railway station here.
 
He said 20 out of the 32 railway coaches re-designed into wards by Southern Railway's Palakkad division, will be stationed here.
 
The wards are equipped with necessary medical equipment and facilities for doctors and paramedical staff.
 
Kateel said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown how such difficult situations need to be handled.
 
The lockdown was announced in time so that coronavirus spread was checked and all the central departments carried out their works efficiently to monitor the situation, he said.
 
Mangaluru South MLA D Vedavyas Kamath was also present.

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February 3,2020

Feb 3: The Karnataka government is probably the only state to have so many nodal agencies to deal with investment proposals. There is the KIADB, Karnataka Udyoga Mitra, State High Level Clearance Committee (SHLCC), State Level Single Window Clearance Committee (SLSWCC) and District Level Single Window Clearance Committee.

While the government claims these have been created to speed up the process of setting up industries, they’re only delaying it. “A four-to-five year delay in acquiring land has become the norm,’’ say industry sources.

“These entities are only adding layers of obstacles to investors and is not really helping industries,” said a senior IAS officer.

While DLSWCCs are headed by deputy commissioners are empowered to clear investment proposals up to Rs 15 crore, SLSWCC, headed by the industries minister, clears proposals more than Rs 15 crore and up to Rs 500 crore. Proposals worth more than Rs 500 crore have to be cleared by SHLCC chaired by the CM. These entities have to meet regularly and clear proposals. But often, these meetings don’t happen as scheduled. “The delay starts from here,” said Vasant Ladava, industrialist and member of Karnataka Industries and Commerce, Bengaluru.

The single-window agencies involving representatives of departments like industries, revenue, pollution control board and forest are supposed to collectively give necessary clearances required for industries. “But, of late, they have become only project approvers without other responsibilities, leaving investors in the lurch,” said Ladava.

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May 21,2020

Udupi, May 21: In a shocking development, as many as 27 fresh coronavirus positive cases were reported in the coastal district of Udupi today. 

Another shocker is, 16 among 27 covid-19 patients are children. The rest are six men and five women. 

Interestingly, all of them have inter-state travel history. 23 had come from Maharashtra and 3 from Telangana. Another one had come from Kerala to Manipal. More details are awaited.

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