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Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Kota Srinivas Poojary on Wednesday directed BSNL to begin installing new telecom mobile towers on the 39 sites allocated by the Udupi district administration.

The Karnataka High Court last month rejected Udupi quadruple murder accused Praveen Chougule’s petition to transfer the case to a Bengaluru court. Chougule had argued that there was a security risk if he was produced before an Udupi court since it was the jurisdiction of the alleged crime. In an order passed on August 30, a bench of Justice Mohammad Nawaz rejected this contention, saying Chougule is now lodged in a Bengaluru central prison and “therefore, the apprehension of threat raised by the petitioner is misconceived”.

A government plan to introduce Kambala, a traditional buffalo race held in coastal Karnataka, into the historic Mysuru Dasara celebrations has drawn opposition from various quarters—from organisations to Mysuru BJP MP Yaduveer Wadiyar. The plan has attracted opposition ever since the Mysuru district administration started preliminary preparations to hold Kambala during the Dasara celebrations, organised in October. A group of representatives from various organisations in Mysuru decided to form an action committee to protest against the plan to hold the event during the festival.

A Karnataka Congress leader, David D’Souza, was murdered at point‑blank range in Udupi district on Friday afternoon in what police suspect was a contract killing linked to a financial dispute over a construction project. Three men allegedly involved in the murder have been arrested, the police said, identifying them as Raju, 42, from Uttar Pradesh, Ajay Rastogi alias Anmol, 23, from Uttarakhand, and Jiyahul Vazool Shek alias Deepak, 38, from Bihar. D’Souza, 55, was shot dead around 3.45 pm near the St Xavier Church complex in Mudarangadi in Kapu taluk. According to the police, he had returned to his Thar after visiting his office at the complex when two unidentified men arrived on a motorcycle. 

Kundapur, after he allegedly assaulted a journalist at a restaurant in Udupi district. According to sources, Dr Mahendra Kumar Shetty confronted Srikanth Hemmady, reportedly irked over his report alleging that a doctor at the hospital was collecting money from in-patients during treatment, and hit and abused him and issued him a death threat. Health and Family Welfare Commissioner Gurudatta Hegde took immediate action against the surgeon, who was on a 58-day medical leave from August 4, after CCTV footage of the alleged act was circulated on television channels and on social media.

The mortal remains of UAE-based expatriate Alwin Prakash Kunder, who was allegedly murdered in Sharjah, were brought to Mangaluru International Airport at 3.30 am Thursday and handed over to his family. Two representatives of the company where Alwin, a native of Udupi, worked accompanied the casket from Sharjah and handed it over to his brother, Anil Prakash.