Mudigere, September 21: Three labourers from Assam who were working in a coffee plantation, killed their fellow labourer for petty reasons and buried his body before fleeing to Assam.
Following this incident, Gonibeedu police brought the accused from Assam and exhumed the body in front of the officials, conducted postmortem and buried in the Mudigere town Khabaristan.
Four labourers from Assam have been working in the coffee plantation belonging to M.C. Dinesh at Devavrunda village. On September 7, they have got their wages from Dinesh and consumed liquor. They developed quarrel among themselves related to wage and when their clash reached peak, remaining three killed Matlab Ali (17) and buried the body and fled the village.
While going back to Assam, among three, Bilal (21) missed in the train and remaining two Vaidulla (20) and Mohidulla (20) reached their village. When Matlab Ali did not come along with those two, Ali parents enquired them. In the beginning, the accused said that Bilal and Ali missed in the train. Suspecting their behavior, Matlab Ali father Talibun and mother Muktabunnisa lodged a complaint in the local police station.
When the police arrested the two and interrogated them, they spilled the beans saying that Bilal was missing in the train, but they killed Matlab Ali in the coffee plantation and buried his body. Based on this, Assam police informed the Gonibeedu police who rushed to Assam and brought the accused back to Gonibeedu. PSI Rakesh and three other police visited Assam and brought the accused back. The police sources said that the accused and the victim belong to Uzagam village in Durang district in Assam.
The body was exhumed in front of the doctors and Ali’s parents. After the postmortem, the body was handed over to his parents. Social activist Fish Monu and his team helped the Ali’s parents to bury the body in the Khabaristan at Mudigere on Friday.
Tahsildar Padmanabha Shastry, CPI Jagadeesh, MGM hospital medical officer Dr. Santhosh, PSI Rakesh, and various officers from different departments were present while exhuming the body.

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Jaipur/New Delhi (PTI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday directed the top military commanders of the three services to integrate an "element of surprise" into modern warfare to outmaneuver India's adversaries and bolster strategic posture.
In his address at the joint commanders conference in Jaipur, Singh also described the Operation Sindoor as a testament to the "swift, precise, and joint response" of the Indian armed forces to safeguard national interests and called upon the military to remain ready to deal with any security challenges.
In their two-day deliberations, the commanders carried out a comprehensive review of the combat preparedness of the military in the wake of the evolving regional security situation.
Operation Sindoor was a demonstration of India's growing capabilities and a symbol of the nation's collective resolve and new military ethos, Singh said, a day after the first anniversary of Operation Sindoor.
He also unveiled a 'Joint Doctrine for Integrated Communication Architecture' that is aimed at strengthening doctrinal clarity, interoperability and integrated communications across the armed forces in future multidomain operations.
The joint commanders' conference, themed 'Military Capability in New Domains', brought together the top leadership of the defence ministry and the three services to deliberate on emerging security challenges and future readiness.
Comprehensive deliberations were held on future warfare, multidomain operations, technological transformation and joint capability development.
The conference witnessed extensive discussions on cognitive warfare, cyber resilience against evolving quantum and AI-enabled threats, military capability development in emerging domains, indigenous innovation and AI-enabled warfighting concepts.
It was attended by Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi, Chief of the Army Staff Gen Upendra Dwivedi, Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal AP Singh and Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh among others.
In his remarks, Singh asked the commanders to remain "future-ready" by learning from the operation as well as the current global security landscape.
He underscored the need to strengthen capabilities in artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, data analytics and secure communication networks to stay prepared in the rapidly evolving geopolitical security scenario. He emphasised that future conflicts will increasingly be shaped by hybrid threats, information dominance and operations conducted simultaneously across cyber, space, electromagnetic and cognitive domains, according to an official readout.
Highlighting the transformative impact of emerging technologies, Singh stressed on the importance of ensuring integrated national preparedness across all spectrums of conflict, it said.
Singh's remarks at the conference came a day after the first anniversary of Operation Sindoor.
The defence minister appreciated the progress achieved in enhancing jointness, integration and technological adoption across the three services, the readout noted.
Singh said that jointness constitutes a pivotal dimension within the transformative changes sweeping across the global defence sector.
"Future wars will not be won solely through weaponry, but through innovative thinking and enhanced synergy," he said.
The defence minister exhorted the commanders to cultivate the "element of surprise" to remain unpredictable to the nation's adversaries and secure a strategic edge in any given situation.
He, however, urged them to remain vigilant of the element of surprise of the enemy and always stay two steps ahead.
Singh also reiterated the Narendra Modi government's commitment to enhancing the capabilities of the defence forces through state-of-the-art weapons and platforms. He added that special focus is being laid on research in niche domains.
During the conference, he released a documentary film on Operation Sindoor.
The film reaffirms the nation's and defence forces' commitment to operational preparedness and decisive national response capabilities.
Demonstrations of advanced systems and platforms developed for intelligence fusion, operational planning and information management were also showcased during the conference reflecting growing integration of cutting-edge technologies into joint operational structures, according to the defence ministry.
The discussions will contribute significantly towards shaping India's future military transformation and integrated operational preparedness, it said.
