{"id":3385,"date":"2026-02-22T03:26:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:26:43","slug":"128662906-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=3385","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka BJP MLA Chandru Lamani caught taking bribe | Hubballi News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ\" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-128662911,imgsize-633860,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/karnataka-bjp-mla-chandru-lamani.jpg\" alt=\"Karnataka BJP MLA Chandru Lamani caught taking bribe\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>GADAG:Lokayukta police in Karnataka caught Chandru Lamani, BJP MLA from Shirahatti in Gadag district, allegedly taking a Rs 5 lakh bribe from a contractor, during a raid at his Balaji Hospital in Laxmeshwar on Saturday.<!-- --> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>Lamani, a medical practitioner, was taluk health officer in Laxmeshwar, and resigned from service to contest the 2023 assembly election.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>A team led by SP Siddalingappa raided the hospital and detained the MLA after a class-1 contractor, Vijay Pujar, lodged a complaint alleging that the MLA had demanded an 11% commission for a Rs 1 crore retaining wall construction in Sankadal village. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>During the raid, Lamani\u2019s PAs Manjunath Walmiki and Guru Lamani were also caught. Officials said they threw Rs 1 lakh into a neighbouring private school\u2019s compound in an attempt to destroy evidence.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/hubballi\/karnataka-bjp-mla-chandru-lamani-caught-taking-bribe\/articleshow\/128662906.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GADAG:Lokayukta police in Karnataka caught Chandru Lamani, BJP MLA from Shirahatti in Gadag district, allegedly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9580,9579,9582,9574,9573,9575,9576,9578,9581,9577],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bribe","tag-chandru-lamani","tag-h-hospital-raid","tag-hubballi-latest-news","tag-hubballi-news","tag-hubballi-news-live","tag-hubballi-news-today","tag-karnataka-bjp-mla","tag-lokayukta-police","tag-today-news-hubballi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}