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Karnataka Today newsletter: 4 km in 40 minutes | Hebbal flyover is a commuter’s nightmare, and more

It was 9.45 a.m. on a rainy Monday morning and the busy Ballari Road was chock-a-block with vehicles near Esteem Mall. It is from this point that the pace of traffic starts to slow down before motorists hit the infamous Hebbal flyover in north Bengaluru. Amidst blaring horns, the sirens of ambulances could be heard every 10-15 minutes.  

The Hindu team commuted from Esteem Mall to Hebbal Police Station on a two-wheeler to assess the time it takes to cross the flyover, between 11.10 a.m. and 11.40 a.m. It took around 13 minutes to commute a mere 900 metres and climb the ramp of the flyover. The time taken to reach Hebbal Police Station, covering a total distance of four kilometres, was 27 minutes. Read the full report here.

The Supreme Court on July 15 dismissed a plea by Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar to quash a First Information Report (FIR) registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation accusing him of corruption linked to a disproportionate assets case.

Appearing before a Bench of Justices Bela M. Trivedi and S.C. Sharma, senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi and Vipin Sanghi, for Mr. Shivakumar, said the CBI’s case was ”completely illegal” as it cannot start a simultaneous investigation on the same issue the Income Tax department was already probing.

Justice Trivedi said these were two different investigations, dismissing Mr. Shivakumar’s contentions to quash the CBI case .The Karnataka High Court had in October last year had similarly refused to quash the CBI case registered in 2020.

Kannada actor-filmmaker Rakshit Shetty is in legal trouble yet again. The Yeshwanthpur police have registered a case of copyright violation under Section 63 of Copyright Act, 1957, against him and his production company, Paramvah Studios, for using two Kannada songs in Bachelor Party — bankrolled by his banner — without permission. The film hit the screens on January 26, 2024.

The complainant, Naveen Kumar M., partner and authorised signatory of MRT music, said that Rakshit had approached the music label seeking permission to use two songs — Nyaya Ellide and Omme Ninnannu — for Bachelor Party in January this year but the permission wasn’t granted. Naveen reportedly realised the copyright violation after watching the movie on Amazon Prime Video.