Bengaluru: Barely a couple of days after he was handed a breather in a case of Breach of Privilege, Ravi Belagere, Editor of Kannada tabloid ‘Hai Bangalore,’ was arrested yesterday by Central Crime Branch (CCB) officers for allegedly attempting and conspiring to murder Sunil Heggaravalli, one of his former employees. According to the Police, the…
The love angle
December 9, 2017Bengaluru: Although Police have officially said that Belagere gave the Supari for his colleague Sunil’s murder for ‘personal reasons’, others believe there is an outsider angle to it. On July 20, Belagere posted a cryptic message on his Facebook wall which roughly translates to “When the husband is away at war, will the wife be…
Assembly directs cops to arrest journalists Belagere, Raj
November 22, 2017Bengaluru: The Karnataka Legislative Assembly, today, directed the Home Department to arrest Bengaluru-based tabloid journalists Ravi Belagere and Anil Raj following a House resolution sentencing them to one-year imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 10,000 for breach of privilege. The Assembly Secretariat sent a letter to the Home department on Tuesday night, after the Legislative…
Belagere, Anil Raj move HC
June 28, 2017Bengaluru: Ravi Belagere and Anil Raj, Editors of Hai Bangalore and Yelahanka Voice respectively, yesterday moved the High Court (HC), questioning the legality of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly’s resolution of imposing one-year prison sentence and imposing Rs. 10,000 fine on them based on the recommendation of a Committee on Privileges for publishing “defamatory and false”…
Two tabloid editors face jail for breach of privilege
June 23, 2017Bengaluru: Editors of weekly Kannada tabloid ‘Hi Bangalore,’ Ravi Belagere and Anil Raj, of ‘Yelahanka Voice,’ were handed a year of imprisonment and Rs. 10,000 each as fine by Assembly Speaker K.B. Koliwad. He made this announcement in the Assembly on June 20 and instructed the Bengaluru Police to arrest the journalists if they failed…
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