Karnataka Congress MLA from Bagalkote and former minister H Y Meti died at a private hospital here on Tuesday, party and hospital sources said.

A couple in Uttar Pradesh has been arrested for claiming insurance money worth Rs 25 lakh by issuing a fake death certificate to declare the husband dead.

A case was filed based on a complaint by Jitendra Kumar Tiwari, a Hitachi representative. Later, a team from the company reached the ATM and recovered the cash