Bengaluru: The Bengaluru Court, on December 13, granted an interim bail to the editor of Kannada tabloid “Hi Bengaluru” Ravi Belagare, in the case of hiring a contract killer to execute journalist Sunil Heggaravalli.

The court granted the conditional bail till December 16, on medical grounds.

Ravi Belagere has been accused of hiring a hit-man to murder his old colleague, and was arrested on December 8.