Tabloid editor arrested

IN Media Watch Briefs | 08/12/2017

Ravi Belagere, editor of Kannada tabloid Hi Bangalore, was arrested on Dec 8 on allegations of hiring a contract killer to murder a fellow journalist, his former employee Sunil Heggaravanahalli. Police found guns and ammunition in his home. In June this year he was one of two editors to attract a jail sentence ordered by the Speaker of the Karnataka Assembly for breach of privilege following allegedly defamatory articles against legislators. ( The News Minute)

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