Bhatkal: Bailoor Gram Panchayath members who had appealed for no confidence motion against Panchayath President Manjunath failed to appear before Bhatkal Assistant Commissioner (AC), Sajid Ahmed Mulla on Saturday when he had scheduled the vote of confidence motion.

Only Manjunath Naik, was appeared before Assistant Commissioner while all the other members who wrote to AC for the confidence test remained absent. Thereby Manjunath Naik will now continue on his position as president of Panchayath.

A total of 10 members had filed for vote of confidence to AC.

Earlier too, members had similarly filed for no confidence motion twice but then, Manjunath Naik had approached High Court and had bailed himself out of the situation twice.

It is being said that former MLA Mankal Vaidya and Honnavar APMC President Gopal Naik, who supports Manjunath Naik, intervened and negotiated with other members of Panchayath which convinced them to give the no confidence motion a skip.

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Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.

Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.

The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.

"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.

The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.