Udupi: Superintendent of Police, Udupi District, Laxman Nimbargi, on Sunday suspended two assistant police constables who were later arrested for allegedly helping the accused of Kota double murder case, in escaping.

The suspended police personnel have been identified as Pawan Ameen and Veerendra Acharaya, both of them have said to have helped the main accused of the case Harish Reddy, by arranging car, money and cell phone for absconding after the incident.

Both the accused were posted in the Udupi District Armed Reserve Police, (DAR)

After their suspension, both the constables were arrested by the police and were later presented before the magistrate late night on Sunday at his residence, who remanded them in judicial custody.

On January 26, this year, Bharat (30) and Yathish (25) were murdered after a verbal argument over the construction of leach pit.

Pawan Ameen and Virendra Acharya had connections with the murders accused, rowdy-sheeters Harish Reddy, Rajeshhekar Reddy, Mahesh Ganiga and Kanda Kunder. After the murder, on January 26, Pawan Ameen had provided a safe hideout at his residence in Hebri's Kuchoor. The next morning, Harish Reddy had asked Pawan Ameen to provide some equipmentsm including mobile phones and SIM cards. Accordingly, Pawan Ameen had sent the items by Pranab Bhat.

On February 7, the police department made the breakthrough arrest of prime accused Rajshekhar Reddy and Medical Ravi from Madikeri, which led to revelation of a pit of information relating to the case, which led to more arrests, brother of Rajshekhar Reddy, Harish Reddy was also arrested on Thursday morning along with Mahesh Ganiga and Ravichandra Poojary.

BJP ZP member Raghavendra Kanchan, was on Thursday arrested after his role in the murder was suspected, based on the phone calls made to him by the accused before and after the murder. All six were presented before Kundapur court, and were remanded eight days judicial custody till Feb 15.

Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.



Bengaluru, Nov 28: The Karnataka Cabinet on Thursday decided to upgrade 500 government schools as Karnataka Public Schools at an outlay of Rs 2,500 crore in four years.

For the purpose, the state government would borrow Rs 2,000 crore from the Asian Development Bank and contribute Rs 500 crore.

This project will be taken up from July 2025 to June 2029.

According to the Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil, there are 308 Karnataka Public Schools functioning in 204 Taluks of the state.

Get all the latest, breaking news from Karnataka in a single click. CLICK HERE to get all the latest news from Karnataka.