Lokayukta raid yields assets worth around Rs 1.5 crore

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July 31, 2012

Mangalore, July 31: In simultaneous raids, Lokayukta sleuths searched the residences and office of two senior government officers on Tuesday in three different parts, and unearthed assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.

Accused have been identified as Rathnakar Naik, Deputy Director, Food and Civil Supplies, Chikmagalur, and Raghupal G, ATPO, Mangalore City Corporation, in three different places

Lokayukta inspector Uday Nayak told media persons that sleuths raided the office and properties of two accused in Mangalore, Ujire and Chikmagalur.

The properties of the Rathnakar Naik recovered by the sleuths include three acres of land at Ujire worth Rs approximately 60,000, 28 cents of another land in Ujire worth Rs 1,45, 000, a separate house building in Ujire worth Rs 25,00,000, a flat at Bejai, in Mangalore worth Rs 9,11,000 and a Maruti Swift car worth Rs 6,40,000. Besides, the sleuths also recovered movable property including 350 grams of gold worth Rs 9,00,000 , Rs 18,00, 000 of medical college expenses, Rs 4,88,170 in four separate bank accounts and a cash amount of Rs 88,600.

The recovered properties of Raghupal include 3.35 cents of land at Kadri, Mangalore, worth Rs 70,000, another three cents of land in same place worth Rs 1,25,000, a house building at Mallikatta, Mangalore worth Rs 5,00,000 and a shopping complex in the same place worth Rs 5,00,000, a land at Bangalore worth Rs 7,80,000, besides a Maruti Swift car, worth Rs 4,78,145, a Tata India car worth Rs 3,65,390, a Honda City Car worth Rs 9,00,00. Sleuths also found 187 grams of gold, 450 grams of silver, Rs, 5,24,000 in Corporation Bank account, Rs 2, 05, 054 in five separate bank accounts and Rs,15,00,00 medical expenses.

Uday Nayak said that on the basis of credible information, cases were registered against the officers under PC Act of 1988 for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to their known source of income. Bank accounts and lockers were being secured and investigations were in progress, he said.

He said raids were conducted under the supervision of D S Jagamainavar, Superintendent of Police, Karnataka Lokayukta, Mangalore. The raiding teams comprised of five inspectors and about 25 policemen.

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January 17,2020

New Delhi, Jan 17: The Supreme Court on Friday closed the monitoring of the killing of rationalist M M Kalburgi in 2015 in Dharwad.

A bench of Justices R F Nariman and S Ravindra Bhat noted that the charge sheet has already been filed and the matter was assigned to the sessions court. The court, however, noted two accused had absconded and could not be arrested till date, according to reports.

Senior advocate Devadatt Kamat, appearing for the Karnataka government, submitted that the High Court had also stopped monitoring of the matter.

The top court had in early last year directed that the Karnataka High Court's Dharwad bench to monitor the probe. The Karnataka police SIT, which investigated Gauri Lankesh case and filed the charge sheet, was allowed to take over the Kalburgi case.

Umadevi, in her 2017 plea, drew a parallel between Kalburgi's murder and killings of Narendra Dabholkar and Comrade Govind Pansare in Maharashtra and sought an SIT probe by a retired Supreme Court or a High Court judge. She urged the top court to monitor the probe till it reached its logical conclusion as there was no progress in the investigation conducted so far by the Karnataka police.

The court had earlier sought to know if there was a "common thread" in murder cases of Communist leader Pansare and rationalist Dabholkar in Maharashtra, and Kannada writer Kalburgi and journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh in Karnataka.

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January 2,2020

Mysuru, Jan 2: Mysuru-based Karnataka State Open University is gearing up to offer courses online from this year onwards and a proposal in this connection will be placed before the University Grants Commission (UGC) this month, after approval from the board of management.

As of now, the university offers 31 courses, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and diploma programmes.

Vice-chancellor Vidyashankar S Said that the university will submit its proposal to the UGC soon.

“This is being done to make learning convenient and help students study their courses of choices from the comfort of their homes.”

After launching online admissions for courses, this is another step to go paperless and towards an e-campus, the V-C explained.

The university has also proposed to launch 12 new courses for 2020-21.

A proposal in this regard will be placed before the board for approval on Thursday and the same will be submitted to the UGC for its nod.

Prof. Vidyashankar said the these courses will be in addition to the 31 already available.

The new courses include LLM, MA in Education, BBA, BSc, BCA, diploma in Information Technology, postgraduate diploma in Information Technology, BSc in Information Technology, MSc in Information Technology, MSc in Botany, PG diploma in Banking and Insurance, MSc in Zoology, MA in Telugu, Executive MBA, and MSc in Food Sciences and Nutrition.

The new courses had been proposed based on students’ feedback and the trend.

The V-C said the admissions for the January cycle have begun and over 380 students had so far taken admissions online.

“We are hoping for good admissions this cycle and are expecting around 12,000 admissions,” he replied.

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Madikeri, Aug 6: Heavy rainfall triggered landslides at Brahmagiri hills in Talacauvery in Kodagu on Thursday.

Four members of the Talacauvery temple priest family are missing in the landslides informed Annies Kanmani Joy, Kodagu DC.

She also informed that Advanced Rescue Team has been rushed to incident site.

According to the reports, houses belonging to two priest families were destroyed in the incident. 

However, one house was vacant as family had moved to Bhagamandala.

Visuals from Kodagu showed a flood-like situation, with houses and vehicles submerged under rainwater.

Meanwhile, heavy rains continued to lash Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Chikkamagaluru districts on Thursday.

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