Bengaluru, Aug 08: A special court in Bengaluru has sentenced a 33-year-old to three years rigorous imprisonment for masturbating in front of a girl back in 2020.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said he has directed the CID to investigate the alleged complaint letter sent to Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot by assistant agriculture directors of Mandya district accusing Agriculture Minister N Chaluvarayaswamy of demanding Rs six lakh to Rs eight lakh as bribe.

Calling it a classic example of misuse of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the Karnataka High Court has quashed a case filed against two brothers who are in their fifties over a property dispute.

While the soaring tomato prices across the country have raised concerns among consumers, they are proving to be a boon for tomato farmers. This positive trend has been experienced by two brothers in Chamarajanagar taluk, Rajesh and Nagesh, sons of Krishna Setty from Lakshmipur village.

Forest officers narrowly escaped from a close encounter with a wild tusker during an operation aimed at redirecting the elephant back into the forest near Attigundi Hara of Megur in Mudigere taluk. This effort is a response to the growing incidents of wild elephant attacks in the Malemane, Megur, and Alekhan villages. The Forest Department's primary objective is to confine the wild elephants within the boundaries of their natural habitats.

The High Court of Karnataka has said that insulting a man for being dark-skinned by his wife constitutes cruelty as it underlined this as a strong reason for allowing his appeal and granted him divorce.

Underscoring the ramifications that data gaps have a cascading effect on the economy, the Karnataka High Court has dismissed a petition filed by a company that did not provide statistics of its operations for the year 2011.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has questioned whether the BJP or its "brother" was behind a "fake letter" accusing Agriculture Minister N Cheluvarayaswamy of demanding bribes from officials after the Governor asked the government to probe the complaint.