Bengaluru, May 31: Senior advocate Uday Holla was appointed as the new Advocate General of the Karnataka government on Thursday and he might take over the charge on June 1.

After the completion of the tenure of the Congress government, senior advocate Madhusudan R Nayak has resigned from the AG post. But as soon as BS Yeddyurappa sworn in as the Chief Minister, the Governor has appointed senior advocate and additional Solicitor General Prabhulinga K Navadgi as the AG on May 17.

In a changed political scenario, the JDS-Congress combine has formed the government and Uday Holla was appointed as the AG and sources said that he would take over the charge on Friday.

With this, Uday Holla has become the AG for the fourth time. He has worked as the AG for three times from April 1, 2006 to October 29, 2007, from October 16, 2007 to November 22, 2007, from June 2, 2008 to June 24, 2009.



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Raisen (MP), Nov 24: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a truck driver while his two associates restrained the teenager’s male friend in Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district, an official said on Sunday.

Police have arrested two persons, including the truck driver, in connection with the alleged crime committed in Siyarmau forest on Silwani-Sagar Road, some 110 km from the district headquarters, on Saturday evening, he said.

The teenager and her 21-year-old male friend were returning after visiting the Vandevi temple in the area when they parked their two-wheeler and entered the forest, said Silwani’s Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) Anil Maurya.

At the same time, a truck broke down following which its driver, later identified as Sanju Adivasi (21), and his two friends also went inside the forest, where they spotted the girl and her friend.

The trio thrashed the young man and snatched the key of his motorcycle, he said, citing the FIR.

The driver took the girl deep inside the forest and allegedly raped her, while his associates restrained her friend, the official said.

After the three accused left, the girl and the youth walked to the road and alerted some policemen who were passing by.

Police registered a case against Sanju Adivasi and his associates Shivnarayan Advasi and Akshay Ahirwar under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 64 (rape), 70-1 (gang rape) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said.

Sanju and Shivnarayan have been arrested, while Ahirwar is on the run, the official said.