<p>Bengaluru: A special court for cases involving MPs/MLAs has sentenced life imprisonment to Congress MLA and former minister Vinay Kulkarni and 15 others in the Yogeeshgouda Goudar murder case. Special court judge Santhosh Gajanan Bhat has also directed payment of Rs 16 lakh, of the total cost imposed on all accused persons, to be paid to the three children of Yogeeshgouda and his brother Gurunath Goudar.</p><p>BJP Zilla Panchayat member Yogeeshgouda was murdered in Dharwad on June 15, 2016. The Central Bureau of investigation (CBI) had named Vinay Kulkarni in the second additional charge sheet for the offences under IPC sections 120B, 143, 147, 148, 302 and under section 25 read with sections 3, 5, 8 and 29 of the Arms Act. The special court had acquitted Vinay Kulkarni and another accused Chandrashekar Indi for the offences under the Arms Act for want of prosecution sanction.</p>.Bus carrying convicted MLA Vinay Kulkarni catches fire; major disaster averted.<p>The other convicts to undergo life imprisonment for murder and criminal conspiracy are Vikram Bellary, Kirthi Kumar Basavaraj Kurahatti, Sandeep Saudatti, Vinayaka Katagi, Mahabaleshwar Hongal alias Muduka, Santhosh Saudatti, Dinesh M, Ashwath, Sunil, Nazeer Ahmed, Shahanawaz, Nuthan, Harshith, Chandrashekar Indi and Vikas Kalburgi for murder and criminal conspiracy. The court acquitted Vasudeva Rama Nilekani and Somashekar Basappa Nyamagouda on the benefit of doubt.</p><p>The special court further sentenced Police Inspector Channakeshava B Tingarikar to rigorous imprisonment to seven years for offence under IPC section 218 (knowingly frames incorrect record with the intent to save any person from legal punishment).</p><p>Two accused persons - Basavaraja Muttagi and Shivanand Shrishaila Biradar - had turned approvers in the case. While Basavaraja Muttagi supported the prosecution case, Shivanand Biradar turned hostile during the trial. In its order, the special court confirmed the pardon granted to Basavaraja Muttagi while granting liberty to the prosecution to file an application seeking sanction to prosecute Shivanand Biradar.</p><p>“Acting under section 340 of CrPC, the Registrar of City Civil Court is hereby directed to register case of perjury against the Police Officers Shivananda Chalavadi, Babu Katagi, Shankaragouda Basanagouda Patil and other independent witnesses Dr Dattatreya Gudaganti, Anand Irappa Uddannavar, Vinayaka Binjiyavar, Mohan Echarappa Mulmuttal, Vivekananda Dalawai, Natraj Sarj Desai and Vijay Kulkarni for tendering false evidence before the court,” the special court said.</p><p>Yogeeshgouda was murdered at his gym in Dharwad by hired assailants on June 15, 2016. Yogish Goudar’s family alleged that he had received death threats before the murder. The local police initially had arrested six persons in the case. The CBI case was that Vinay Kulkarni was the main conspirator in the murder of Yogeeshgouda. Vinay Kulkarni, who was district in-charge minister at the relevant time, did not want Yogeeshgouda to grow as a leader in Dharwad.</p>
<p>Bengaluru: A special court for cases involving MPs/MLAs has sentenced life imprisonment to Congress MLA and former minister Vinay Kulkarni and 15 others in the Yogeeshgouda Goudar murder case. Special court judge Santhosh Gajanan Bhat has also directed payment of Rs 16 lakh, of the total cost imposed on all accused persons, to be paid to the three children of Yogeeshgouda and his brother Gurunath Goudar.</p><p>BJP Zilla Panchayat member Yogeeshgouda was murdered in Dharwad on June 15, 2016. The Central Bureau of investigation (CBI) had named Vinay Kulkarni in the second additional charge sheet for the offences under IPC sections 120B, 143, 147, 148, 302 and under section 25 read with sections 3, 5, 8 and 29 of the Arms Act. The special court had acquitted Vinay Kulkarni and another accused Chandrashekar Indi for the offences under the Arms Act for want of prosecution sanction.</p>.Bus carrying convicted MLA Vinay Kulkarni catches fire; major disaster averted.<p>The other convicts to undergo life imprisonment for murder and criminal conspiracy are Vikram Bellary, Kirthi Kumar Basavaraj Kurahatti, Sandeep Saudatti, Vinayaka Katagi, Mahabaleshwar Hongal alias Muduka, Santhosh Saudatti, Dinesh M, Ashwath, Sunil, Nazeer Ahmed, Shahanawaz, Nuthan, Harshith, Chandrashekar Indi and Vikas Kalburgi for murder and criminal conspiracy. The court acquitted Vasudeva Rama Nilekani and Somashekar Basappa Nyamagouda on the benefit of doubt.</p><p>The special court further sentenced Police Inspector Channakeshava B Tingarikar to rigorous imprisonment to seven years for offence under IPC section 218 (knowingly frames incorrect record with the intent to save any person from legal punishment).</p><p>Two accused persons - Basavaraja Muttagi and Shivanand Shrishaila Biradar - had turned approvers in the case. While Basavaraja Muttagi supported the prosecution case, Shivanand Biradar turned hostile during the trial. In its order, the special court confirmed the pardon granted to Basavaraja Muttagi while granting liberty to the prosecution to file an application seeking sanction to prosecute Shivanand Biradar.</p><p>“Acting under section 340 of CrPC, the Registrar of City Civil Court is hereby directed to register case of perjury against the Police Officers Shivananda Chalavadi, Babu Katagi, Shankaragouda Basanagouda Patil and other independent witnesses Dr Dattatreya Gudaganti, Anand Irappa Uddannavar, Vinayaka Binjiyavar, Mohan Echarappa Mulmuttal, Vivekananda Dalawai, Natraj Sarj Desai and Vijay Kulkarni for tendering false evidence before the court,” the special court said.</p><p>Yogeeshgouda was murdered at his gym in Dharwad by hired assailants on June 15, 2016. Yogish Goudar’s family alleged that he had received death threats before the murder. The local police initially had arrested six persons in the case. The CBI case was that Vinay Kulkarni was the main conspirator in the murder of Yogeeshgouda. Vinay Kulkarni, who was district in-charge minister at the relevant time, did not want Yogeeshgouda to grow as a leader in Dharwad.</p>