Bengaluru: BJP MLA and Former Karnataka Minister Arvind Limbavali was on Monday booked in a suicide case agter a 47-year-old named Limbavali in his suicide note.

The BJP leader was booked by Kaggalipura Police along with six other accused in the case under section 306 (abetment of suicide)

Pradeep, 47, a resident of HSR Layout in the city, committed suicide in a car by shooting himself in the head on Sunday, near Nettigere village of Bangalore South taluk.

The names of the six people, including that of Limbavali, were mentioned in Pradeep's suicide note.

Kaggalipura Police, who registered a case and were investigating, have now filed a first information report against the MLA and five others.

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Kozhikode (PTI): Three members of a family, including a girl, drowned in a river at Nadapuram in this district on Saturday, police said.

The tragic incident occurred when the family had gone to Puliyavu river near Nadapuram, to wash their clothes.

The deceased were identified as Ansar (43), his wife Suhada (39), and Isa Mariyam (8), daughter of Ansar's brother--all residents of Puliyavu here.

According to preliminary information, the child accidentally slipped into deep waters and Ansar and his wife attempted to rescue her.

But all three were also pulled in by the current and drowned.

The couple's children alerted the locals, who initiated rescue efforts.

Though they were pulled out of the water, their lives could not be saved, police said.

The bodies were shifted to the nearby state-run hospital and further procedures are underway, they added.