Bengaluru, November 15: Senior journalist Ravi Belagere moved the Karnataka High Court seeking dismissal of cases on giving contract to kill another journalist and illegal possession of weapons.

Earlier, Ravi Belagere was arrested in this case. Later, he came out of the prison on bail. Now, he has filed an application before the High Court seeking dismissal of all cases pending against him in this incident.

What’s there in application?

The charge sheet was submitted to the Sessions Court and it has to taken up for the hearing. The case is full of illegal and inappropriate aspects and it is lacking evidences. So, citing these reasons, the case should be dismissed, he appealed in the application.

He has submitted the application to the HC on Thursday and the HC may take up the case either on Friday or Monday.

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Palakkad (Kerala) (PTI): Five people have been arrested for allegedly beating to death a Jharkhand native on suspicion of theft near Walayar here a day ago, police said on Friday.

The arrests were formally recorded late Thursday night and all the accused have been booked for the offence of murder under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, an officer of Walayar police station said.

The deceased -- Ramnarayan Bhayar (31) -- was working as a labourer in the Walayar area.

According to police, Bhayar was attacked by a group of men on Wednesday evening, alleging that he was involved in a theft at Kizhakeattappallam near Walayar.

As per the FIR, the incident occurred before 7.40 pm, and the injured Bhayar was rushed to the Palakkad District Government Hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.

Police said a detailed investigation was underway to ascertain the sequence of events leading to the incident.