PU college principal ends life; kin allege harassment by upper caste men

January 22, 2016

Mangaluru, Jan 22: A principal of a pre university college in Kodagu district allegedly committed suicide inside a lodge in Mangalur on Thursday.

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The incident came to light on Thursday evening when the staff of the lodge located in Bijai area forced open the door of the room booked by the 45-year-old Sudesh.

Sudesh, a Dalit, hailing from Talapady in Mangaluru taluk had been working as the principal at Srimathi D Chennamma PU College at Madapura, Somwarpet.

His family members have alleged that harassment by the upper caste men in college management led him to resort to the extreme step.

It is learnt that he had booked the room on Wednesday night. He was supposed to leave the room on Thursday.

When he did not come out of the room till Thursday evening, the staff grew suspicious and peeped into the room only to witness Sudesh lying in an unconscious state.

After the door was broke open, it came to light that he had consumed poison. The police from Urwa station rushed to the spot and shifted the body for post-mortem after a doctor confirmed that he was dead.

Sudesh is survived by his wife, who works as a lecturer at a private institution in Krishnapura, a son and a daughter.

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Gangster Ravi Poojary finally brought back to Karnataka

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February 24,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 24: Fugitive underworld don Ravi Poojary, with more than 90 criminal charges pending against him, was brought to the city in the wee hours of Monday after he was arrested from Senegal in South Africa.

Police said that he was wanted in more than 92 criminal cases. In Bengaluru alone, he was involved in more than 39 cases, including double murder of Ravi and Shobana in 2007, an attempt to murder attack on Mantri developers 2009, extortion and other crimes etc. He had committed crimes in various parts of the state including Myusuru, Hubballi, he had involved in extortion, threatening builders, politicians, etc.

"Though Senegal police had nabbed him about six months back to get him to India it took more than six months since there was no agreement to deport criminals from that state to us. However, now all legal hurdles have been removed and we have succeeded in bringing him", a top police official told media.

A team of Bengaluru Police headed by Additional Director General of Police Amar Kumar Pandey, Joint Police Commissioner Sandeep Patil reached Senegal on Saturday and brought him to the city by Air France flight.

Ravi Poojari was wanted in cases of extortion and murder and was active in the Mumbai underworld. He was part of the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's gang and later is said to have worked with 'Chota Rajan' for some time. Claiming to be an enemy of Dawood, Poojari reportedly finished off all his associates and anti-India elements in the country. His men were involved in a shootout on the Shabanam Developers office in Bengaluru in which a woman staffer was killed.

He is also said have been involved in the shootout case of Shahid Azmi, an advocate from Mumbai. There are cases against him in Kerala, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.

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Milk collection stopped in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts

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March 29,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 29: Dakshina Kannada Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union Limited in a statement announced that their milk collection centres across Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts will be closed on March 29 and 30.

Due to a shortage of storage space with them, the Union has decided to stop collecting milk on these two days, according to the statement issued here on Saturday.

The sale/retail of milk and milk products won’t be affected in these two days.

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