Chikmagalur, August 28: A body was found in the Bhadra river near Kudremukh in Kalasa hobli on Monday and the local police identified the person as Nawaz (30), who was killed by his wife’s lover in an illicit affair in Bengaluru recently.

Local people who noticed the body of an unidentified person at Echalu stream in the Kudremukh police station limit on Monday informed the police. Under the guidance of circle inspector Ramachandra, diver Bhaskar fished out the body and the police started their investigation to identify the person.

A murder case was registered around a week ago at Peenya in Bengaluru and the police have arrested the accused who said that the body was dumped in the river near Kudremukh. As a body was found in the river near Kudremukh, the local police informed the Bengaluru Varthur police who brought the accused to Kudremukh to identify the body. The police have confirmed that it was body of Nawaz.

Murder due to illicit affair

Both Aysha and Nawaz got married second time after divorce in their earlier marriages. After their second marriage, they have been living in a rented house in Peenya. Meanwhile, Aysha was  introduced to Shivakumar recently and it turned into love later, it is said.

In the beginning, Shivakumar did not know that Aysha was married. But after knowing that she was married, Shivakumar wanted to get her by any means. To fulfill his desire of getting Aysha, he planned a plot to kill Aysha’s husband. To execute his plan, he took the help of his friends and called Nawaz for a vehicle on rent on August 20. Informing his wife, Nawaz went out for a trip. But Shivakumar and his friends who called Nawaz under the guise of taking a vehicle on rent, assaulted Nawaz with lethal weapons and slit his throat. After killing him, Shivakumar and his friends took his body to Kudremukh in a car and dumped it into Bhadra river and left, it is said.

When her husband did not turn up, Aysha called him over his mobile phone. But his phone was switched off due to which she has lodged a complaint at Varthur police station. Two days later, Nawaz parents also lodged a complaint. Following the complaints, police checked the call details of Nawaz. During investigation, the police trapped Pawan, one of the friends of Shivakumar, and he spilled the beans. Later, the police arrested the main accused Shivakumar and confirmed that they have dumped the body in the Bhadra river.

Before the Bengaluru police reaching the spot with the accused, the local police have found the body. On Tuesday morning, the Bengaluru police reached Kudremukh with the accused and confirmed that it was Nawaz body.

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Bengaluru, Mar 6 (PTI): The Karnataka Assembly on Thursday passed the Bangalore Palace (Utilisation and Regulation of Land) Bill, reaffirming state ownership over 472 acres and 16 guntas of land here, amid protests by the opposition BJP.

During the discussion, Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil said the state government would have to provide Rs 200 crore worth of Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) for each acre of land, which means that for 15 acres, Rs 3,000 crore worth of TDR would be issued.

“If we accept it, then this 2-km stretch of road will become the costliest road in the world. If we accept it then how are we going to develop the city in later stages? How will you carry out development works?” asked Patil.

He also pointed out that this question was raised not only under the Congress government but also during the previous BJP regime.

However, the BJP-led cabinet has opposed the project.

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“Suppose we agree to it then, what will be the valuation of the 472 acres? It will be lakhs and lakhs of crores of rupees. Can we accept?” Patil wondered.

The Minister said the government had previously exercised its executive powers to issue an ordinance, which was approved by the Governor. Now the government is bringing a bill with two amendments.

“In this bill, we have made provisions either to develop or drop the road development work,” Patil explained.

However, BJP state president B Y Vijayendra and BJP MLA Arvind Bellad opposed the move, alleging that the government was targetting Yaduveer Krishna Datta Chamaraja Wadiyar, the scion of the Mysuru royal family, and the BJP MP from Mysuru-Kodagu constituency out of political vendetta.
“We talk of 472 acres of Mysuru Maharaja but here there are many Maharajas who too own 400 acres, 500 acres and thousands of acres of land, which is known to everyone,” Bellad said.

He slammed the Congress government, saying political power should not be misused for personal vendetta.

“Why (the then Deputy Chief Minister) Siddaramaiah brought the law in 1996 pertaining to the Bangalore Palace? Why are you setting eyes on the Bangalore Palace?” he asked.

Vijayendra charged that Wadiyar won the election on BJP ticket so the state government realised that it should acquire it.

“This bill has been brought for political vengeance. We are not discussing whether Rs 3,000 crore is exorbitant or not but the moment Yaduveer became MP, the state government woke up. You should be ashamed. This house should not be used for political vendetta,” he said.

Intervening, Minister Priyank Kharge said Vijayendra should not have raised it because the intention behind building the road was noble.

According to him, the BJP too had the same plan when it was in power.

He sought to know whether thousands of crores of rupees be spent on a road which should have cost significantly less.

In response, BJP MLA B A Basavaraj (Byrathi) said issuing TDR will not be a burden on the state government and appealed to the ruling Congress to reconsider its stance.

Minister Ramalinga Reddy too explained that the Karnataka government acquired the entire land way back in 1996.

The Mysuru royal family went to the High Court, which gave ruling in favour of the state government. The royal family then approached the Supreme Court, where the case is still going on, the Minister pointed out.

“The final judgment is pending in the SC to decide whether the acquisition was right or wrong. If the SC says it’s the royal family’s property then let it be so. If the order is in the state government’s favour then we can take a decision. The bill is only about it,” Reddy explained.

Speaker U T Khader then called for a voice vote and the bill was passed by the Assembly amidst opposition BJP’s discontent.

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