The 1993-batch IPS officer has previously led SITs that probed cases including rape charges against former MP Prajwal Revanna and graft allegations against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara says police have arrested ex-DGP's wife Pallavi in connection with the murder, and she has admitted committing the crime.
Appointment comes around Congress's Karnataka elections win. State party chief D.K. Shivakumar had called Sood ‘nalayak’, vowing to take action against him once they are in power in the state.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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