House owner, relative sleeping in newly built house dies mysteriously, one critical
Leakage of poisonous gas from generator suspected
Chikmagaluru, February 11: Two persons including the house owner who were sleeping in the newly constructed house, died while another is reported to be serious, due to suspected gas leakage in the house at Hariharadalli village near the city on Monday morning.
The police suspected that they might be suffocated to death as all windows and doors were closed or died due to electric short circuit. The victims have been identified as Shivakumar (35) and Bharath (20) of Hariharadahalli. The condition of another person Sachin is said to be critical and he was rushed to Bengaluru for more treatment.
Shivakumar had constructed a house at Hariharadahalli recently. Its house warming program was supposed to be held on February 15. After completing remaining works, Shivakumar, along with his nephew Bharath and relative Sachin slept in their new house on February 10. As there was power interruption, they switched on the generator and slept after closing all windows and doors, it is said.
On Monday morning, Shivakumar’s wife went to the house, upon receiving no response after knocking the door, she called Shivakumar’s brother and broke open the door to find her husband and Bharat dead, while Sahin was rolling on the floor. All the three were rushed to the hospital where the doctors declared Shivkumar and Bharat dead. After providing first aid, Sachin was rushed to Bengaluru.
The reason for the death however was not yet ascertained, Chikmagaluru rural police who registered a case suspected that they might have died either due to short circuit or poisonous smoke from the generator. Postmortem was conducted on both the bodies and the police are waiting for the report to ascertain the reason for the death.
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Man held for attempting to encroach on 532 acres of forest, govt land near Bengaluru
Belagavi (Karnataka) (PTI): Karnataka Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre on Tuesday said that police have arrested a man for allegedly attempting to encroach upon 532 acres of forest and government land at B M Kaval near Bengaluru by submitting forged documents and obtaining court orders fraudulently.
He said the accused, M B Manmatha alias M B Nemannagowda, had earlier also attempted to claim ownership over 512 acres and 26 guntas of forest and government land in Chikkamagaluru's Mudigere by producing fake records.
In connection with the case, an Assistant Conservator of Forests had lodged a complaint at the Mudigere Circle police station on November 28, following which the Tahsildar also lodged a separate complaint, the minister said in a statement issued by his office.
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Based on these complaints, police registered an FIR and have now taken Manmatha into custody. "The investigation will reveal who were all involved in this conspiracy to encroach upon forest and government land," he said.
The FIR was registered against the accused at Mudigere police station in Chikkamagaluru district on December 13 under Sections 465 (forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 469 (forgery for purpose of harming reputation), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant section of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act.
Khandre further claimed that it had come to his notice that some officials and government advocates were directly or indirectly assisting those attempting to encroach upon government and forest land worth thousands of crores of rupees.
The minister said he has written to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah seeking a CID or Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the matter.
Warning of strict action, the minister said no one attempting to grab forest land using forged documents would be spared and termed the development a "wake-up call".
