Dharwad: 77-year-old Senior researcher, academic and scholar M M Kalburgi was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at his residence here on Sunday August 30.
Sources said that at around 8.40 am, unidentified persons barged into his residence at Kalyana Nagar in Dharwad and opened two rounds of fire. Kalburgi who was critically injured on his chest and forehead, he was rushed to hospital, where he was declared dead.
According to the reports he was having breakfast when the miscreants entered the house and opened fire.
Senior police officials visited the hospital.
About M M Kalburgi
Born in 1938 at Yargall village of Sindgi taluk of Vijayapura, M M Kalburgi served as the vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi. He was awarded the National Sahitya Akademi award in 2006 for ‘Marga 4’, a collection of hundred of his research articles. He was a noted Kannada epigraphist and a renowned scholar of the Vachana literature. He has been conferred Karnataka State Sahitya Akademi Award, Kendra (Central) Sahitya Akademi Award, Janapad Award, Yakshagana Award, Pampa Award, Nrupatunga Award and Ranna Award.
