1 arrested for attack on lawyer

| Updated: Feb 10, 2018, 23:47 IST
Dharwad: Police on Saturday nabbed one person in connection with the attack on lawyer Bhimappa Doddamani in Dharwad.

Manjunath Harijan, 25, of Kyaakoppa village off Dharwad, is being interrogated by DCP (law and order) Renuka Sukumar and other officers at Vidyagiri Police station in Dharwad. "We are questioning him. He is yet to reveal the motive behind his act and also the name of his accomplice" said an officer.


Police are on the lookout for another accused.


Two unidentified people had stabbed an advocate in broad daylight near his office at Station Road opposite the horticulture department office on Monday.


The assailants stabbed Doddamani in the neck, face and hand, causing injuries. Doddamani had run into the tahsildar's office compound. Doddamani hails from Prabhunagar Honnapur village, Dharwad taluk.



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