Bengaluru Dec 11 (IANS) A court here on Monday sent to 12 days judicial custody Kannada tabloid editor Ravi Belagere who was arrested for allegedly hiring hitmen to kill an ex-colleague.
"He will be in judicial custody until December 23 " said the 1st Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate V.Jagadeesh.
Belagere 59 the editor of Kannada weekly "Hai Bangalore" was arrested by the city police on Friday and had been in four-day police custody since then.
The arrest was made after two gunmen - Tahir Hussain and Shashidhar Mundewadi - had testified to taking ransom from the journalist to kill his ex-colleague Sunil Heggaravalli three months ago.
Heggaravalli whom the killers couldn t manage to shoot was working with Belagere in the same tabloid.
Belagere had reportedly given Mundewadi a gun with four bullets along with a knife to "eliminate" his former colleague whom he called a "betrayer".
From searches conducted at Belagere s office and residence in the city police had so far found one revolver gun with 53 live bullets and a used bullet a double barrel gun with 41 live bullets along with deer skin and tortoise shell.
--IANS
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