Hebbar was born and brought up in the Uttara Kannada district of the southern small village called Shivakar on the banks of river Gangavati in the Indian state of Karnataka.
Political career
In 1983, he was elected to Yellapur APMC and this was his maiden entry to public life. In 2008, he contested the Yellapur-Mundgod Assembly elections as a Congress candidate against V S Patil but lost.[8]