Puttur MLA, Mahalingeshwara temple trustee booked

The Puttur Town Police have registered a case against Ashok Kumar Rai, Puttur MLA, Puttur Mahalingeshwara temple’s managing trustee Ishwarbhat Panjigudde and others on the charge of trespassing into a property under the control of Bantwal Court.

The complaint was filed by Aravind Rao Kedige, appointed as receiver by the Senior Civil Judge and JMFC Court, Bantwal, for the Kedige family’s 9.79 acres of land in front of the Mahalingeshwara temple. The order was passed on February 26, 2019, in connection with the Final Decree petition of 2018, related to a partition suit, which was pending before the court.