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Mattennavar, who had openly admitted planting bombs in LH, acquitted by court

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June 28, 2016

Bengaluru, Jun 28: Police Sub-Inspector turned BJP activist Girish Mattennavar and two of his associates have been finally acquitted by a local court, here in 13 year old case of bomb attack attempt on Karnataka Legislators' Home.

1terrormannennaEven though Mattennavar had openly claimed to have planted the bombs after his arrest and justified his action by saying that it was an attack against corruption, Judge Chennakeshava on Monday exonerated him and two others due to lack of evidence.

Mattennavar, a 26-year-old sub-inspector with Narona police, Kalaburagi, in 2003, had come to the city for rifle-shooting training, when he allegedly planted four bombs in the fifth floor toilets of the Legislators' Home, and made a call to the police control room alerting it of the bombs.

The callers had claimed that theirs was a crusade against corruption by politicians. The police had later arrested Mattennavar, Guranna Ammapura and Girish Babu, his associates in connection with the case, and charge-sheeted them.

Even though the local media had initially treated it as a terror attack, after the arrest of Mattennavar, he was treated as a crusader against corruption.

The trial of the case that dragged on for 13 years, ended on Monday in the acquittal of all the three accused in the case by the 66th City Civil Court and Sessions Court.

Vidhana Soudha police sources said the court had acquitted all the three accused in the case on the benefit of doubt for want of evidence. The owner of the STD booth from where the group had made the call to the police had allegedly noted down the motorcycle number when they returned again to fetch the helmet they had left behind.

This formed the main evidence against the accused. However, this evidence was successfully challenged in the court after which the case fell flat, said senior police officials involved in the case.

Mattennavar, who is now a BJP activist, expressed his happiness over the acquittal. However, after the judgement he was careful enough not to comment on his involvement in the case even though he had openly confessed to the crime 13 years ago.

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Satyameva jayate
 - 
Tuesday, 28 Jun 2016

Another Hindu terrorist?

Ahmed Ali K
 - 
Tuesday, 28 Jun 2016

Court acquitted him ....
Now he is dangerous to the society and cant trust this guy anymore. He can do anything anytime anywhere.

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January 16,2020

Davanagere, Jan 16: Congress leader D K Shivakumar on Thursday turned down all the recent media reports of him aspiring for the coveted Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committe (KPCC) president post.

Terming all the news, doing rounds, as baseless, Shivakumar said that he never made any attempt to become KPCC president. "All I want to do is work for my people and party", he asserted.

Referring to Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa's visit to Harihar's 'Our Lady of Health Minor Basilica' programme, Shivakumar said."I'm not concerned about what others are doing, everyone is free to take part in the programmes."

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June 11,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 11: Most COVID-19 deaths in Karnataka occur when infected elderly people, those with Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) or any other symptoms delay reaching designated hospitals, a top official said.

Munish Moudgil, chief of COVID-19 War Room in the state, said most of those infected with the virus are brought to COVID-19 designated hospitals at a very late stage and recovery then becomes extremely tough.

He said about 65 per cent of those killed suffered from SARI and are aged above 60.

The death rate due to SARI is 43 per cent for those in the 40-60 age group, he said, releasing data on coronavirus deaths, to reporters.

In the same age group, the mortality due to Influenza Like Illness (ILI) was 17.4 per cent, whereas it is 11.1 per cent among people aged above 60 .

He said 25 per cent of symptomatic patients aged above 60 die due to the virus, while it was 10.7 per cent in the 40-60 age group.

The fatalities among those aged 60 is high even if they are asymptomatic, Mr Moudgil, who is secretary in the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, said.

He said the average number of days spent at these hospitals by those who recovered is about 15 days, compared to 3.5 days for those who died of the virus.

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"Hence persons who are elderly and who have comorbidities or who have SARI must reach designated Covid hospitals at the earliest," Mr Moudgil said.

As of date, Karnataka has reported 69 COVID-19 deaths As many as 6,041 people have tested positive for COVID-19, including 2,862 discharges and 3,108 active cases.

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January 16,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 16: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad is holding rallies and meetings and distributing booklets across the country in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, said ABVP National Secretary Harsha Narayan here on Thursday.

Speaking to media persons, he said that the CAA, which provides citizenship to Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Parsis, Jains and Christians persecuted in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, was among the things that the ABVP was fighting for.

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