The Congress corporator had escaped from a private hospital where he was admitted for COVID-19. The Central Crime Branch police have arrested the former mayor of Bengaluru, R. Sampath Raj, in connection with the violence at DJ Halli and KG Halli. Raj, who had been named absconding accused by the CCB in an interim charge sheet filed on October 12. The former mayor has been absconding since October after he was discharged from a private hospital where he was undergoing treatment for COVID-19. Riyazuddin confessed that he hid Raj at a farmhouse near Nagarahole.

Source: The Hindu November 17, 2020 02:43 UTC