FIR against Public TV Ranganath, 7 others
Ballary: An FIR has been registered against seven persons, including Public TV MD HR Ranganath in connection with an assault case, at Cowl Bazar police station.
The police booked a case against HR Ranganath, reporter Veeresh Dani, social worker Rajashekhar Mulali, VIMS hospital doctors Ravi Bheemappa, Shadrak, Hanumantaraya and Usha of nursing section in related to an assault on hospital lab technician VK Yadavada.
Speaking to reporters, Yadavada said that Usha had come to the lab on the night of June 12 and asked to get her blood tested as she was reportedly suffering from chest pain. "After collecting her blood sample, she abused me with foul language and five others who accompanied her attacked me and snatched cash, gold and my mobile phone and fled the scene," he alleged.
In 2016, I had filed a defamation case against four persons over a report telecast in Public TV in 2015. Subsequently, the Dharwad Bench of Karnataka High Court had dismissed their appeal filed seeking quashing of defamation case against them. Later, a city court had issued a non-bailable warrant against them seeking clarification. Keeping this in mind, they had assaulted me, he alleged.
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Body of Bihar Police personnel found hanging in barracks in Patna
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.
