The city police have filed a case against owners of private land and the Project Director, Mangaluru office, of the National Highways Authority of India for allegedly cutting excess soil from Kettikal hillock, which recently witnessed landslips, posing a threat to the traffic movement on the busy Mangaluru-Moodibidri national highway and to houses atop the hillock. Guruprasad filed the complaint …
Minister in charge of Dakshina Kannada Dinesh Gundu Rao said here on Friday that a high-level inquiry will be ordered into why and how the Department of Mines and Geology allowed the National Highways Authority of India to extract more soil by cutting the Kettikal hillock during the widening of the national highway between Mangaluru and Karkala. Speaking to presspersons …
