Bengaluru court grants journalist Ravi Belagere interim bail on medical grounds
The ‘Hi Bangalore’ editor is accused of hiring contract killers and plotting to kill journalist and former colleague Sunil Heggaravanahalli.
A court in Bengaluru on Wednesday granted interim bail to journalist Ravi Belagere, who was arrested on December 8 on allegations of hiring a contract killer to murder a fellow journalist. He was granted bail on health grounds.
Journalist Ravi Belagere granted conditional interim bail on health grounds by a Bengaluru court. He had been arrested for for allegedly plotting the murder of his colleague.
— ANI (@ANI) December 13, 2017
Belagere, the editor of Kannada tabloid Hi Bangalore, is accused of plotting to kill journalist Sunil Heggaravanahalli, who quit the newspaper two years ago because of differences with Belagere.
The police conducted searches in Belagere’s house in Bengaluru and seized a revolver, a double barrel gun and ammunition after two gunmen, who were arrested for illegal possession of arms, told the police that the editor had hired them to kill Heggaravanahalli.