The complainant, Durgappa, who belongs to the tribal Bovi community, was a faculty member at the Centre for Sustainable Technology at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). He claimed that in 2014, he was falsely implicated in a honey trap case and subsequently dismissed from service.

“The patient, suffering from symptoms like breathlessness, weakness in lower limbs, and diarrhoea, was admitted to a private hospital (in Solapur) on January 18 as he was on ventilator support on and off. He died on Sunday,” Solapur Government Medical College Dean Dr Sanjiv Thakur said.

Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate the 38th National Games in Dehradun. The National Games is being hosted in Uttarakhand in 11 cities across 8 districts from January 28 to February 14.