Bantwal, Feb 15: A 27-year-old woman ended her life by jumping into the Netravati river here from a running train on Thursday morning, police sources said.

The deceased has been identified as M G Nayana, a native of Tumakuru, going by the details of the Aadhaar card in the bag she left behind in the train. She was travelling on a Kannur-Bengaluru-Mangaluru train.

The body of the woman, floating in the river, was later recovered by local diving experts and shifted to Bantwal government hospital for post-mortem.

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The exact identity of the woman and the motive for the extreme step are yet to be ascertained, sources said. Bantwal city police station ASI Devappa Vijayakumar visited the spot as part of the investigation.

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Chamarajanagara (Karnataka) (PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday accused the central government and its agencies of consistently targeting Congress members by using searches on their properties, and questioned why similar action is not taken against BJP leaders.

He was reacting to searches conducted by the Enforcement Directorate on Monday on several individuals, among them the sons of Karnataka Congress MLA N A Haris and the grandson of former Union Cabinet minister K Rahman Khan, in connection with a cryptocurrency-linked money laundering case.

"The central government always targets Congress leaders. Will they raid the houses of BJP leaders?" Siddaramaiah said in response to a question. More than a dozen premises in the city were searched as part of the operation carried out by the ED under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The premises searched comprised those of Mohammed Haris Nalapad and Omar Farook Nalapad, the sons of the MLA; Aqeeb Khan, the grandson of veteran Congress leader K Rahman Khan; and an alleged crypto hacker, Srikrishna Ramesh, alias Sriki, officials said.

The money laundering case stems from Karnataka Police FIRs and charge sheets filed in a 2017 case involving the hacking of national and international websites, theft of bitcoins, and the sale of these stolen virtual digital assets (VDAs) through crypto platforms by the alleged hacker Sriki and his associates.

Mohammed Haris Nalapad, Omar Farook Nalapad, and Aqeeb Khan are alleged to be beneficiaries of the proceeds of crime generated through this crypto-linked activity, officials added.