Belagavi: The five-member fact-finding team of BJP on Saturday reached here to collect firsthand information into the matter where a tribal woman was assaulted and paraded naked.

The High Court of Karnataka has reiterated that ”neither the police nor the criminal court invoking powers under Sections 102 or 104 of the Criminal Procedure Code can seize or impound a passport.” The court, therefore, recently quashed the order of the Debt Recovery Tribunal-1, Bengaluru, which had impounded the passport of Nitin Shambhukumar Kasliwal, a businessman from Mumbai.

The NHRC has issued a notice to the Karnataka government and the state's police chief after a 42-year-old woman was allegedly stripped, paraded naked and tied to an electric pole and assaulted in a village in Belagavi district, officials said on Friday.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday slammed BJP national president J P Nadda for attempting to derive political mileage from the Belagavi incident wherein a woman was paraded naked and thrashed after her son eloped with a girl from the same community and termed it 'shameful'.

Bengaluru: The city police have arrested an IT cell employee of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) party for allegedly carrying out a malicious campaign against the Karnataka government on social media platform during the recent Telangana Assembly election.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging the oath by nine ministers and 37 MLAs that was allegedly not in the prescribed format.

Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka on Friday adjourned to January 5 the hearing on a petition challenging the withdrawal of the sanction to prosecute Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar in a disproportionate assets case.

Belagavi: Karnataka Higher Education Minister Dr. MC Sudhakar responding to concerns about law violations by stone mining and crusher units in the state during the question hour of the winter session of the assembly on Friday, informed the assembly that stringent measures will be initiated against such units after a drone survey in 9 districts of the state.