Muniraju

In a shocking turn of events, a man in Bengaluru, attempting to set his elder brother's house on fire due to a property dispute, was himself engulfed in flames. The cracker chit fund operator, Muniraju, poured petrol and ignited the blaze but was caught in the fire while holding the fuel can. Neighbours rescued him, and he sustained significant burns.

Private firm employee Muniraju, 68, and his three alleged killers - pet parents Ravi Kumar, 38, and Pallavi, 28, and dog breeder and trainer Pramod - shared an acrimonious relationship for over one year, police said.

It all happened in a span of three to five minutes, with 30 frames and at an alarming distance of 30 feet from the huge elephant. Risking his life, K S Sridhar, senior photographer of Vijaya Karnataka captured frame-by-frame Muniraju’s tryst with neardeath.

A 68-year-old man was beaten to death for objecting to a couple and a dog trainer letting their pets defecate in front of his residence in northwest Bengaluru.

A labourer was arrested on charges of raping his sister and her six-year-old daughter.

A love story between a mobile shop owner and his employee has ended tragically with both dying in span of 15 days.

Battered and rendered unconscious by her jilted lover who later committed suicide, a 24-year-old woman from Kamakshipalya died in Victoria Hospital on Monday.

The quarrel turned violent when the assailants pulled out machetes and knives and attacked Chandrappa and Muniraju. The three children, waiting in the car, were unharmed.

A 34-year-old Bengaluru cowherd earning about Rs 2,000 a month had the shock of his life when he was issued a Rs 40-lakh notice to pay Goods and Services Tax (GST) for carrying out a transaction of Rs 2 crore in his bank account.

A 30-year-old employee of the Akash Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Devanahalli has filed a sexual harassment complaint against its founder chairman Muniraju, his wife Pushpa Muniraj and Veena, a staffer.

Muniraju’s daughters along with their mother requested the hospital officials if they could see him from a distance at least, but they were denied permission.

A Jayanagar resident who wanted to save some amount on his long overdue property tax ended up losing Rs 90,000 after four people, including two BBMP officials, conned him with a fake payment receipt.

In the serial blasts that shook Bangalore on July 25, daily wager Muniraju (29) was one of those seriously injured while parking his vehicle in Adugodi.

A 47-year-old man from Tamil Nadu's Dharmapuri allegedly killed his former partner, went live on a social-networking site holding her body and later hanged himself from a tree in border village Nagamale, near MM Hills, late Wednesday night.

A squabble between two brothers ended with the elder sibling allegedly killing the younger one around Monday midnight on KEB Road, Anjananagar, off Magadi Road, on the outskirts of the city.

A city court has sent a tahsildar to four-year jail term for taking bribe in 2011, and slapped a notice on the complainant for trying to mislead the prosecution by changing his version during the trial.

The Lokayukta police on Saturday filed a First Information Report (FIR) against BJP MLA S Muniraju in a land case.

A 24-year-old youth who was allegedly trying to elope with a married woman was beaten to death by her brother and three of his friends in Bengaluru late Saturday night. After the murder, the quartet bundled the body into an autorickshaw and knocked on the doors of Annapoorneshwarinagar police station, west Bengaluru, around 3am Sunday and declared they would like to surrender before cops.

An alleged suicide of a 19-year-old girl in July has turned out to be a case of murder after police received forensic lab reports on Thursday at Chandragiri in Tirupati district.

With the intent of swaying the sizeable vote bank of slum dwellers in urban pockets, the BJP state leadership held a “Slum Dhour Bhagya” programme, pointing at the lack of basic amenities under the Congress regime, with each of their top leaders staying in slums across the urban pockets of Karnataka for one night.

A couple who came from Karnataka to a picnic spot in Chittoor district were attacked by four unidentified youths on Thursday.The assailants stabbed the youth with knives and allegedly gang raped his girlfriend.

Usharani was arrested earlier this week, and on Thursday, the high court slapped a fine of Rs 1 lakh on her for filing a misleading petition.

Indiranagar police arrested Muniraju, 37, a developer who had allegedly forged documents pertaining to the Hudco to cheat his customers.