Daijiworld News Network - Mangalore with inputs from Yathiraj Moodbidri
Moodbidri, Mar 1: The public here were happy over the Madras High Court verdict of Wednesday over the killing of hotelier-entrepreneur Manikyaraj Ballal of Dakshina Kannada origin in Chennai in February 2005. An erstwhile employee of Ballal's hotel in Chennai, Mayandi, was given a life-term in a judgement which was pronounced in exactly a year of Ballal's unfortunate killing.
Manikyaraj Ballal owned the Palm Grove Hotel and Hotel Ashok in Chennai at the time of his murder by his own employee out of some personal grudge. Ballal was highly respected in the hotel industry in Bangalore and Chennai, besides his native Mangalore.
The killer Mayandi was pronounced guilty under sections 341, 506 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code by the Madras High Court on Wednesday, March 1.
The people of Moodbidri have confirmed their faith in the judicial system and the rule of law in the country with the judgement coming out in just over a year of the murder of Ballal, who had had a business base in Moodbidri.
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