Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Sasikanth Senthil on Thursday evening extended holiday for schools and colleges till Friday in the wake of heavy rain in the District.

The orders issued by Deputy Commissioner on Thursday evening confirmed that the schools and colleges across the District will remain closed on Friday, third consecutive day.

The District is also on red alert till August 9, and the fishermen have also been asked to refrain from sailing into sea.

Earlier in the day, Senthil had announced that schools and colleges will resume classes from Friday, but the order issued late in the evening after taking into account latest developments in the weather, he announced holiday for all the schools and colleges.

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New Delhi (PTI): A Delhi court has sentenced two CBI officers to three months' imprisonment for assaulting and trespassing into the residence of an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer during a raid over two decades ago.

Judicial Magistrate Shashank Nandan Bhatt was hearing the arguments on the sentence against the convicted retired police officer V K Pandey and Ramneesh, who was serving as a superintendent of police when the raid was conducted in 2000.

Ramneesh is at present a joint director at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The court also fined Rs 50,000 each to both the accused.

Both were accused under IPC sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 427 (mischief) and 448 (criminal trespass) in a complaint filed by IRS officer Ashok Kumar Aggarwal.

The case pertained to an incident on October 19, 2000, when a CBI team carried out a search and arrest operation at Aggarwal's residence in Paschim Vihar.

Aggarwal alleged that the officials forcibly entered his house in the early hours, assaulted him and violated legal procedures during the arrest.