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UP: Boyfriend arrested for rape, murder of minor

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Unnao: A minor girl, whose mutilated body had been found near the Pariyar crossing in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district on February 23, had been raped by her boyfriend, who then crushed her under his vehicle with the help of his friend.
Both the accused have been arrested while the two vehicles used in the crime have also been seized, police said.
After the body of the class 9 student was found, the police had registered a case of gang rape and murder on the basis of a complaint lodged by the victim’s family.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Siddharth Meena had formed separate teams for a breakthrough into the case.
The SP said that the girl’s boyfriend Pintu Rawat, 19, a resident of Pariyar and his friend Rohit Rawat, 19, of Galharapur have been arrested.
According to the police chief, Pintu called the girl to meet him on February 22 night. After she arrived, he took her to a deserted place and forcibly established a physical relationship with her.
At the same time when Pintu received a call from the girl’s uncle on his mobile phone, he asked her to go back home, but she remained adamant and refused to return, and instead asked Pintu to take her with him.
“Pintu was so scared of this that he hatched a plan to crush the girl to death. For this, he called his friend Rohit who came in another four-wheeler, then he took the girl to Pariyar market. As soon as the girl got down from the vehicle, Pintu ran her over with his car, then Rohit also crushed her with his vehicle. After the girl died, the two fled the spot,” said an official.

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February 27, 2023
Hyderabad murder: Police files petition seeking custody for accused

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Hyderabad: Rachakonda police have filed a petition before the court against Harihara Krishna, who was arrested for murdering his friend Naveen after he got apprehensive that the latter was getting close to his girlfriend.
A police official said that after committing the crime, Krishna was loitering around the body for 7-8 hours.
“After killing Naveen at about 8 pm on February 17, Krishna loitered around for six hours. We suspect he stabbed the body at regular intervals. He came again the next day to check the body,” the official said.
According to police, Krishna was plotting the murder for at least two months after he realized Naveen was in touch with his girlfriend through calls.
The trio has known each other from their intermediate days. The girl was in a relationship with Naveen but they broke up. She became friends with Krishna and entered into a relationship with him, police said.
On Sunday, the police examined the feed from the closed circuit cameras installed near ORR Abdullapurmet, L B Nagar and other areas where the suspect had gone along with the victim before killing him.
Naveen, was an engineering student at a college in Narketpally Nalgonda district while Krishna studied in Hyderabad. Naveen was murdered on February 17. After nearly eight days Krishna surrendered before the Abdullapurmet police.

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February 26, 2023
Two Moosewala murder accused in killed in Punjab jail clash

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Chandigarh: Two gangsters, involved in the killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, succumbed to injuries following in a major clash of gangsters in Goindwal jail in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district on Sunday, officials said.
The deceased were identified as Mandeep Singh, alias Toofan, and Mohan Singh, alias Manmohan Singh. A third jail inmate, Keshav, was also critically wounded in the clash. He was admitted to Guru Nanak Dev Hospital in Amritsar.
All three of them have been accused in the Moosewala murder killing.
Toofan was arrested by the anti-gangster task force in September last year. He was also wanted in the killing of another notorious gangster, Ranbir Singh, in a hospital in Amritsar.
Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, popularly known as Sidhu Moosewala, was shot dead in Punjab’s Mansa district on May 29, 2022.
The clash in jail comes two days after self-styled globe-trotting Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh, who just came to the limelight after returning from Dubai, when his supporters, carrying swords and arms, clashed with the police and forcefully laid a siege on a police station in Ajnala, which led to a scuffle and injuries to several police personnel in Amritsar district.
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February 26, 2023
Hyderabad: 1 person arrested in Shaheennagar murder case

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Hyderabad: The Balapur police arrested a man who is allegedly involved in the murder of a salesman Mohammed Faisal Shah, 25, years from Osmannagar.
The accused person Abdul Jabbar, 24, and the victim Faisal Shah are friends for a long time and often move together. On February 12, around 8 pm, Faisal Shah, who married about six months ago, left his house saying he was going on some work to Charminar. Since he did not return home prompting his mother approached the Balapur police and lodged a missing case.
The Balapur SHO, Bhaskar, registered a case and took up an investigation.
While the investigation was in progress, the police got a clue that Jabbar made a phone call to Faisal Shah. The police teams searched for Jabbar and finally nabbed him on Saturday. “Jabbar was not present at his house or his workplace. After efforts, we caught him at Shaheennagar, and on interrogation, he admitted to killing Faisal and hiding the body at a house in Minar colony,” said ACP Anjaiah.
The ACP further said Jabbar was consuming beer when Faisal came to him and met. “Jabbar told Faisal they will go to the exhibition on February 13, but he did not agree.
Some argument happened and Faisal abused Jabbar in filthy language. Angered over it Jabbar hit Faisal with a stone and again with a stick repeatedly on his head leading to his death. Afterwards to disfigure his face, Faisal hurled boulders and concealed the body beneath rocks,” said ACP Anjaiah.
The police moved the body with the help of labourers on Saturday and shifted it to the Osmania Hospital morgue.
Jabbar is arrested and produced before the court for judicial remand.

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February 26, 2023
Viveka murder probe sparks war of words between YSRCP, TDP

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Amaravati: As the CBI investigates the murder of former Andhra Pradesh minister Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy, paternal uncle of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, appears to be reaching climax, a war of words has broken out between the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) and opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
With the CBI pointing fingers at Jagan Mohan Reddy’s cousin and Kadapa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy and the latter’s father Y.S. Bhaskar Reddy, the TDP is looking to corner the ruling party and even blaming the chief minister himself.
That the CBI’s recent startling revelations have rattled the YSRCP was evident when its leaders alleged that the TDP president and former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu were influencing the CBI probe.
The recent developments in the four year old sensational case, which has all the trappings of a crime thriller, are likely to have an impact on the course of state politics at a time when the parties are gearing up for next year’s elections.
Claiming that lower-rung officials of the CBI are taking the investigations into a particular direction, the YSRCP leaders are pointing fingers at Chandrababu Naidu, who was the chief minister when Viveka was murdered.
Vivekananda Reddy was the younger brother of former chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, father of Jagan Mohan Reddy.
He was found murdered mysteriously at his residence at Pulivendula in Kadapa district on March 15, 2019, a month ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The 68-year-old former state minister and former MP was alone at his house when unidentified persons barged in and killed him. He was killed hours before he was to launch YSR Congress Party’s election campaign in Kadapa.

Though three Special Investigation Teams (SITs) conducted the probe they failed to solve the mystery.
The CBI took over the investigation into the case in 2020 on the direction of Andhra Pradesh High Court while hearing a petition of Vivekananda Reddy’s daughter Sunitha Reddy, who raised suspicion about some relatives.
The CBI filed a charge sheet in the murder case on October 26, 2021 and followed it up with a supplementary charge sheet on January 31, 2022
In November last year, the Supreme Court transferred to a CBI court in Hyderabad the trial and probe into the larger conspiracy behind the murder. The apex court observed that doubts raised by Sunitha Reddy about getting a fair trial and investigation in Andhra Pradesh were reasonable.
Stepping up the pace of investigation, the CBI on January 28 questioned Avinash Reddy for more than four-and-a-half hours. The Lok Sabha member from Kadapa was questioned by the agency for the second time on February 24.
Avinash Reddy made the second appearance two days after the CBI made startling revelations in the case.
While opposing the bail petition of one of the accused Sunil Yadav, the CBI stated in its counter filed in Telangana High Court on February 22 that Avinash Reddy, his father Y.S. Bhaskar Reddy and their follower D.Siva Sankar Reddy had hatched a criminal conspiracy to kill Vivekananda Reddy due to the grouse they had over conflicting political ambitions.
The CBI submitted to the court that the trio used other accused Yerra Gangi Reddy, Sunil Yadav, Dastagiri and others who worked for Vivekananda Reddy to execute the murder plot.
The investigating agency stated in its counter that Vivekananda Reddy was not happy with his brother Bhaskar Reddy and nephew Avinash Reddy as they had sabotaged his chances in the MLC election in 2017 in Kadapa. Avinash and his father wanted Siva Sankar as MLC candidate but when Jagan Mohan Reddy fielded Vivekananda, the trio ensured he was defeated.
To settle scores, Viveka opposed the proposal of fielding Avinash as the YSRCP candidate from Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency. The former minister wanted Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister Y.S. Sharmila or mother Y.S. Vijayamma be fielded.
The CBI claimed that Rs 40 crore was offered to the other accused to carry out the murder.
On February 3, the CBI questioned Krishna Mohan Reddy, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) for the chief minister. It also quizzed Naveen, who works in the house of the chief minister.
They were reportedly questioned about the sequence of events on the day when Vivekananda Reddy was murdered. They collected information about phone calls made or received by them on the day.
This prompted TDP to step up attack on Jagan Mohan Reddy and the opposition party started pointing fingers at him.
After Avinash Reddy appeared before the CBI, YSRCP general secretary government advisor Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy alleged that the CBI probe into Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy murder case is progressing as per the TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu’s directions.
He also raised suspicion that Naidu is influencing the probe agency through his aides in the BJP. He alleged that the CBI is deliberately taking the probe into a particular direction to target a few people.
Giving a clean chit to Avinash Reddy, Sajjala said the Kadapa MP had no role behind the murder. “There is no evidence to point to Avinash Reddy’s role,” he said and added that the murder had been committed as per Chandrababu Naidu’s screenplay and direction.
Sajjala recalled that the murder took place when Naidu was the chief minister. He called it a conspiracy hatched by the TDP chief to demoralize Jagan Mohan Reddy ahead of the 2019 elections. He claimed that Viveka’s murder was a big loss for Jagan at personal level and YSRCP as a whole.
He alleged that TDP leaders Adinarayana Reddy, B Tech Ravi had close links with the criminals. He said that CBI had not interrogated B Tech Ravi, Adinarayana Reddy and brother-in-law of Vivekananda Reddy, Sivaprakash Reddy who first called Avinash to inform about the death.
Sivaprakash Reddy told Avinash that Viveka died of cardiac arrest. Sajjala dared the CBI to probe why the call records of Viveka were not retrieved to bring more facts to light. He also wanted to know as to why CBI did not seize the mobile phones of Adinrayana Reddy and Viveka’s son-in-law Rajasekhara Reddy.
The TDP is making every effort to politically capitalize on the recent developments. “The question everybody was asking in the state was who killed babai (uncle). Now they have got an answer. Abbai (nephew) killed Babai,” says Chandrababu Naidu.
He also claimed that Google Takeout helped in solving the puzzle who killed babai. Naidu claimed that the technology revealed the location of every suspect on the day of the murder.
The chronology of events and phone numbers of the people allegedly involved in the murder have been traced.
Naidu alleged that Jagan’s main aim then was to gain sympathy from the murder. He said that as then chief minister, he too was made to believe that Viveka died of a heart attack.
He was all praise for Viveka’s daughter Sunitha for her lone battle to expose the plot.
He slammed Sajjala for finding fault with the CBI’s findings even as the investigation is in progress
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 26, 2023
Assam Police arrests Army officer in murder case

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Rangia: A senior Army officer has been arrested from the 4 Corps headquarter in Tezpur in Assam in a murder case, a police official said on Saturday.
The officer of lieutenant colonel-rank has confessed to the murder of the 36-year-old woman, whose body was found inside a sack in Changsari area of Kamrup district on February 15, he said.
Kamrup superintendent of police Hitesh Chandra Roy said, “Our team arrested the accused with due permission from the Army authorities on Friday night from Tezpur.
“He was kept at North Guwahati police station and during interrogation today, he has confessed to the murder,” he said.
The accused is currently in judicial custody, the SP said.
Roy said that preliminary investigations have revealed that the accused had an affair with the victim, who hailed from Tamil Nadu and had a four-year-old daughter from a previous marriage.
“The woman had traveled to Guwahati by Rajdhani Express recently with her daughter and as per her call records, she had contacted the accused 138 times over phone since then,” he said.
The CCTV footage of the army officer traveling to Howrah station and dropping the child there has also been found, Roy said.

The child is in custody of Kamrup Police now under appropriate supervision, the police official added.
The vehicle used in the crime has been recovered, he said but did not share details on how the murder was carried out or whether any other person was involved in it.
“Investigation is on,” Roy added.
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February 25, 2023
BSP MLA murder case: Yogi, Akhilesh trade barbs on crime in UP

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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Assembly witnessed noisy scenes on Saturday as Leader of Opposition Akhilesh Yadav sought to corner the state government over the killing of a prime witness in the 2005 BSP MLA murder case, drawing a sharp retort from Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Adityanath alleged that Samajwadi Party not only nurtured criminals, but also made them MLAs and MPs, and said his government will “decimate” (mitti me mila denge) the mafia.
Umesh Pal, the prime witness in the 2005 murder of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Raju Pal, was shot dead outside his residence here, the police said.
Police on Saturday registered an FIR against several people, including former MP Atiq Ahmed. The mafia-turned-politician is currently lodged in a Gujarat jail. Atiq was a SP MP from Phulpur parliamentary constituency (in Prayagraj).
When the House assembled for the chief minister’s speech on the Governor’s address at 11 am, the SP and Yadav tried to corner the government over Pal’s killing.
The chief minister termed the Prayagraj incident “sad” and said the government has taken cognizance of it.
He said, “I would assure the House that the action which has been taken under the zero tolerance policy, its result will be out soon.”
Without taking any names, the UP chief minister said, “Who had nurtured the criminals and the mafia? The mafia whose name is emerging in the Prayagraj incident, is it not true that the Samajwadi Party had made him an MP.”

“He was a mafia nurtured by the SP. Our government is working to break its back. We will decimate (Mitti me mila denge) them,” Adityanath said.
Further attacking the Samajwadi Party, Adityanath said, “They are the mentors of criminals, and they have been doing it continuously. Crime flows in their veins. They have learnt nothing except crime. The entire state knows about this, and today they are giving justification.”
“The mafia leader who had perpetrated this act yesterday, is out of Uttar Pradesh, and became MLA and MP because of the assistance of the Samajwadi Party. Is it not true that in 1996, that mafia leader became a MLA from Allahabad West seat. In 2004, these people made him the Lok Sabha MP. Our government will finish them off, he said.
Referring to the address by UP Governor Anandiben Patel, Adityanath said, “People who could not give respect to a woman Governor in the House, how can they give respect to women?”
He also took a jibe at the SP while referring to SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s “boys commit mistakes” quote.
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February 25, 2023
YSRCP MP raises doubts over CBI probe into Vivekananda Reddy’s murder case

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Hyderabad: YSR Congress Party Lok Sabha member from Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh Y S Avinash Reddy on Friday raised doubts over the ongoing investigations by the CBI into the murder of former state Minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy in 2019.
Avinash Reddy, who appeared before the CBI officials here in connection with the ongoing probe, claimed that the investigation is going on in a way of “targetting a person” rather than with the objective of ascertaining the truth.
“This has been going on like targetting the person rather than aiming to find out the facts. This investigation has been going on targetting the person rather than in the direction of finding out the truth. It is not correct. There are many facts. Anybody will get doubts about the way this investigation is being conducted,” the MP told reporters after appearing before the CBI.
Avinash Reddy further said he submitted a representation to the CBI IO on the “facts” he knew and sought a comprehensive investigation on those as well.
After being issued summons by the CBI, this is the second time that Avinash Reddy is appearing before the central agency, which is probing Vivekananda Reddy’s murder case.
Avinash Reddy, who is related to Vivekananda Reddy, had earlier appeared before CBI in January.
The MP said he was called by the CBI through a notice under Section 160 CrPC (police officer’s power to require attendance of witnesses).
“Whatever the CBI IO (Investigating Officer) questioned, I gave answers to the best of my memory and to the best of my knoweldge. I stand by what I had spoken to media on the day after the death of Vivekananda Reddy,” Avinash Reddy said.

Avinash, a cousin of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, said the media should act in a responsible manner over its reporting on the case.
Vivekananda Reddy was the brother of late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and uncle of incumbent AP Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy.
He was found murdered at his residence in Pulivendula, the constituency now represented by his nephew, on the night of March 15, 2019, weeks before the state Assembly elections.
Asked on the CBI counter affidavit filed in the High Court opposing the bail of one of the accused in the murder case, Avinash Reddy said he was also asked on that and he gave replies as per his knowledge.
The case was initially probed by a special investigation team (SIT) of the state crime investigation department, but was handed over to the CBI in July 2020.
The CBI had filed a charge sheet in the murder case on October 26, 2021 and followed it up with a supplementary charge sheet on January 31, 2022.
The CBI affidavit had said “Investigation further revealed that YS Avinash Reddy along with other persons, after entering in the house of Vivekananda Reddy and seeing blood in the bedroom and body lying in pool of blood in the bathroom, conveyed to a local political leader that Vivekananda Reddy died due to heart attack.”
Y S Avinash Reddy also informed police that Vivekananda Reddy died due to heart attack and heavy blood vomiting, “as if the death had occurred due to natural causes”, the affidavit said.
“It indicates that he deliberately intended to conceal the design of murder of Vivekananda Reddy. It also indicates that as a part of conspiracy of fake story of heart attack and blood vomiting was floated in a pre-meditated manner to give it a colour of natural death,” the affidavit said.
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February 24, 2023
Vivekananda Reddy murder case: Kadapa MP appears before CBI

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Hyderabad: YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) MP from Kadapa, Y.S. Avinash Reddy on Friday appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for questioning in former Andhra Pradesh minister, Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy’s murder case.
Avinash Reddy, a cousin of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, appeared before the CBI officials in Hyderabad. He was reportedly being questioned in the presence of his lawyer.
This is the second time that the Lok Sabha member from Kadapa is being questioned by the central agency in the case.
Vivekananda Reddy, who was found murdered at his house in Kadapa district in 2019, was paternal uncle of Jaganmohan Reddy and Avinash Reddy.
The CBI officials questioned Avinash Reddy for more than four-and-a-half hours on January 28.
Avinash Reddy’s father Y.S. Bhaskar Reddy was also summoned by the CBI on Thursday, but he has sought more time from the agency.
The questioning of the MP assumed significance in the wake of an affidavit filed by the CBI in Telangana High Court two days ago while opposing the bail petition of Sunil Yadav, one of the accused.
The investigating agency stated that Avinash Reddy, his father Y.S. Bhaskar Reddy and their follower D. Siva Sankar Reddy had hatched a criminal conspiracy to kill Vivekananda Reddy over conflicting political ambitions.

The CBI submitted to the court that the trio used other accused Yerra Gangi Reddy, Sunil Yadav, Dastagiri and others who worked for Vivekananda Reddy to execute the murder plot.
Avinash Reddy and Bhaskar Reddy had a grouse against Vivekananda Reddy as the latter was opposed to YSRCP fielding Avinash as the party candidate from Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency. The former minister wanted Jagan Mohan Reddy to field his sister Y.S. Sharmila or mother Y.S. Vijayamma.
The CBI claimed that Rs 40 crore was offered to the other accused to carry out the murder.
The investigating agency also stated in its counter that Vivekananda Reddy was not happy with his brother Bhaskar Reddy and nephew Avinash Reddy as they had sabotaged his chances in the MLC election in 2017 in Kadapa. Avinash and his father wanted Siva Sankar as MLC candidate, but when Jagan Mohan Reddy fielded Vivekananda, the trio ensured he was defeated.
Vivekananda Reddy was the younger brother of former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, father of Jagan Mohan Reddy.
He was found murdered mysteriously at his residence at Pulivendula in Kadapa district on March 15, 2019, a month ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The 68-year-old former state minister and former MP was alone at his house when unidentified persons barged in and killed him. He was killed hours before he was to launch the YSR Congress Party’s election campaign in Kadapa.
Though three Special Investigation Teams (SITs) conducted the probe they failed to solve the mystery.
The CBI took over the investigation into the case in 2020 on the direction of Andhra Pradesh High Court while hearing a petition of Vivekananda Reddy’s daughter Sunitha Reddy, who raised suspicion about some relatives.
The CBI filed a charge sheet in the murder case on October 26, 2021 and followed it up with a supplementary charge sheet on January 31, 2022
In November last year, the Supreme Court transferred to a CBI court in Hyderabad the trial and probe into the larger conspiracy behind the murder. The apex court observed that doubts raised by Sunitha Reddy about getting a fair trial and investigation in Andhra Pradesh were reasonable.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 24, 2023
Praveen Kumar Nettare murder case: NIA takes community hall into custody

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Dakshina Kannada: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken into custody a community hall in Idukki village near Bantwal town in connection with murder case of BJP Yuva Morcha activist Praveen Kumar Nettare, sources said on Thursday.
According to the sources, Mittur Freedom Community Hall in Idukki village was used to carry out terror activities. The probe agency has taken the entire premises of 20 guntas into custody.
Cadres attached to the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) used to get trained here to carry out anti-national and subversive activities, they said.
Besides, a plan for the murder of Hindu activists and revenge killings was also carried out here.
An order has been issued to the District Commissioner and Superintendent of Police of Dakshina Kannada district. The owner of the community hall has also been given official communication in this regard and stated that the community hall can’t be rented out or given to someone. The NIA has also prohibited the movement of any articles or carrying out any work in the hall.
NIA, which is probing Praveen Kumar Nettare murder case, has submitted a charge sheet against 20 accused persons to the NIA Special court in Bengaluru. They have arrested 14 persons and have launched a hunt for six others who are absconding.
It had submitted a 1,500-page charge sheet, including statements of 240 witnesses.
The Socialist Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has announced the ticket for Shafi Bellare, an accused in the murder case of BJP Yuva Morcha Activist Praveen Kumar Nettare, to contest in upcoming Assembly elections in Karnataka. The development has raised debate in the state.

Shafi Bellare is presently lodged in prison in connection with the murder of Praveen, which made national headlines.
Bellare had been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and in its custody.
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February 23, 2023