Moodbidri: Young entrepreneur, farmer killed while on hunting trip

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March 23, 2018

Moodbidri, Mar 23: Two men, who had entered a forest in Karinje on the outskirts of Moodbidri for hunting earlier this week, were found dead yesterday under mysterious circumstances.

Vivian Gratian Rodrigues (34), a resident of Prantya near Karinje and Praveen Tauro (32), a resident of Karenje had allegedly gone for hunting last Tuesday night without informing their families. 

Gratian Rodrigues was an entrepreneur and ran service station in Moodbidri, while Praveen was a farmer and also worked as driver.

The family members started searching for them as they disappeared after Tuesday night. Their phones were not reachable. On Wednesday evening they filed missing complaint at jurisdictional Moodbidri police station.

Police who started the investigation, found their SUV parked near the foothills of Karinje on Thursday. A massive hunt was launched to search for the missing duo by teams of police and Moodbidri forest department. 

Dog squad was also pressed into service. Around evening, their bodies, which were swollen, were found in a paddy field close to forest border area, police said.

The cause of death yet to be ascertained and no visible wounds were found on their body. FSL experts were called into the spot. It is suspected that they might have lost their lives after coming in contact with a live electric wire. Investigation is on.

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Suresh kamath
 - 
Friday, 23 Mar 2018

No sympathi on their fate.. They deserved that

Kumar
 - 
Friday, 23 Mar 2018

It should be a lesson for the people who go for pleasure by killing innocent/poor animals

Ganesh
 - 
Friday, 23 Mar 2018

They were being hunted by God

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June 24,2020

Udupi, Jun 24: Nearly four years after he was arrested in the murder case of NRI entrepreneur Bhaskar Shetty, the District Sessions court has granted conditional interim bail to Niranjan Bhat, one of the three prime accused in the case.

The development comes two days after the death of Niranjan’s father Srinivas Bhat(65). Though Srinivas and his driver Raghavendra were also arrested in the case on the accusation of destruction of evidence, they were released within a month.

Through his lawyer Niranjan had appealed to the court seeking bail to perform his father’s post-death rituals. 

After hearing the arguments, the court granted conditional interim bail till July 7 on furnishing a bond of Rs 5 lakh. The judge directed the accused to report to the court on or before July 7 to be taken into judicial custody.

Bhaskar Shetty, who owned a chain of supermarkets in Saudi Arabia, went missing from his house in Udupi on 28 July 2016. His mother Gulabi Shetty lodged a missing person complaint on July 29. The police arrested his wife Rajeshwari, her son Navaneeth and astrologer Niranjan Bhat on the charge of murdering Bhaskar Shetty and destroying the evidence, in Udupi on August 7, 2016. Rajeshwari is already out on bail. Navneet is still in prison.

Shetty was murdered at his house in Indrali and later his body was taken to Belman. It is alleged Niranjan Bhat had put the body of deceased Bhaskar Shetty in the pit used for Homa rituals and burnt it.

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April 14,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 14: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa today wished the people of Tulu Nad a Happy Bishu in Tulu language.

Yediyurappa took to Twitter on Tuesday and wrote in Tulu, 'Happy Vishu to everyone! A new year brings new hope and new energy. May the coming year bring good health and well-being in everyone’s lives.'

Bishu – the traditional New Year for the Hindus in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, which begins from Tuesday is believed to signal the arrival of good luck and fortune for the coming year.

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