Vijayapura: A 38-year-old man was brutally murdered in Almel town of Vijayapura district when unidentified assailants attacked him with lethal weapons while he was riding a bike.

The deceased has been identified as Azaruddin Abdul Rajal Makanadar, a resident of South Solapur in Maharashtra. According to police, Azaruddin was travelling on his bike when he was waylaid and attacked, leading to his death on the spot.

The exact motive behind the murder is yet to be established. Senior police officials, including Superintendent of Police Lakshman Nimbargi, visited the crime scene and took stock of the situation.

The case has been registered under the jurisdiction of Almel Police Station and investigations are underway.

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Bengaluru (PTI): The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday quashed the defamation proceedings initiated by the BJP against top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

The case was filed in 2023, when BJP was in power in Karnataka, following a "corruption rate card" published by the then opposition Congress to claim large scale irregularities prevailing in the state under the saffron party's rule.

Along with Gandhi, now Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, the BJP had accused the then Karnataka LoP Siddaramaiah and Congress state president D K Shivakumar.

Presently Siddaramaiah is the Chief Minister and Shivakumar is his deputy.

Challenging the defamation case, Gandhi had approached the High Court stating that the continuation of the case would be an abuse of law.

The bench of Justice S Sunil Dutt Yadav allowed the petition.

The complainant said that Rahul Gandhi, Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar had conspired together to defame the BJP government and made baseless allegation and insinuation.