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Clean chit to Kempaiah in caste certificate case

DHNS
August 29, 2017

Bengaluru, Aug 29: The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has given a clean chit to former IPS officer Kempaiah, adviser to the Home Minister, in the fake caste certificate case.

The complainant had filed several certificates, including school certificates, indicating that Kempaiah belonged to Kuruba and not Kadu Kuruba. Kadu Kuruba is an ST community whereas Kuruba is a backward community.

The ACB closed the complaint after receiving a report from the Directorate of Civil Rights Enforcement (DCRE) which certified that Kempaiah belongs to Kadu Kuruba community.

Earlier, in 2016, DCRE had claimed that certain vital documents pertaining to the false caste certificate case were missing. The complaint was filed by activist Dinesh Kallahalli. The ACB had sought a report from DCRE since the complaint was not directly connected to an offence under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Kallahalli had claimed that DCRE had indicted Kempaiah for submitting a false certificate in 1990. In February 2017, DCRE submitted a report to the ACB stating that though there was a report by then IGP C Dinakar alleging Kempaiah had submitted a false certificate, the Social Welfare Department stated that he belonged to Kadu Kuruba.

The DCRE report also quoted a paragraph from Kempaiah’s letter to the department in February 2017, where he has accused certain activists of unnecessarily dragging the issue for publicity and to hurt him. He also attached a 2010 report submitted by the then Revenue Inspector and approved by the tahsildar.

“In the report, it is stated that the Revenue Inspector had visited Gollahalli village at Kasaba hobli in Kanakapura taluk.

“He had certified that Kempaiah belonged to Kadu Kuruba community.’’ Based on this report, DCRE wrote to ACB confirming the same.

Kallahalli, a resident of Kanakapura taluk, said that neither the ACB nor the DCRE has attempted to verify the certificates submitted by him. “I had submitted documents from the school where he studied. I have no faith in the ACB which is in the control of the state government,’’ he said.

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May 25,2020

Mangaluru, May 25: D V Sadananda Gowda, Union Minister for Chemical and Fertilizer, has once again written to the Ministry of External Affairs urging to take steps to operate more repatriation flights from Gulf countries to Karnataka. 

In his second letter in 10 days addressed to Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Union Minister for External Affairs, expressed regret over not giving due priority for the repatriation of Kannadigas in the middle east during the extended second phase of Vande Bharat Mission. 

"I shall be grateful if you could personally intervene and instuct the concerned in arranging flights to Mangaluru and Bengaluru from Gulf countries in existing schedule itself," Mr Gowda urged Mr Jayashankar. 

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July 19,2020

Kasaragod, Jul 19: An accused in a case registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Prevention) Act (POCSO) killed self minutes before being shifted to the jail on Sunday.

Police sources said the criminal, Shaiju, was admitted to Covid-19 observation ward after he was arrested and remanded to judicial custody after he was charged with a case under POCSO for unnatural sex with a neighbour boy recently.

The accused had made a similar attempt last month but was implicated in a case after his treatment.

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April 19,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 19: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister CN Ashwath Narayan on Sunday said that "only essential and critical number of" employees of the Information Technology (IT) companies will be allowed to work from offices from April 20 onwards in Bengaluru, while others will have to continue working from home.

"Only essential and critical number of employees required will be allowed to turn up. In the next two days, it will be reviewed and a suitable decision will be taken. 

All the details will be communicated to the IT companies," Narayan said here.

Earlier on Saturday, in a meeting to review COVID-19 situation in Karnataka, it was considered that one-third of the employees of IT and biotechnology companies could be allowed to work from the office premises, while the rest should continue to work from home.

Earlier on April 17, the Deputy CM, after holding a video conference meeting with heads of the IT and biotechnology companies, had told reporters that up to 50 per cent of the workforce would have the opportunity to function from office premises after April 20.

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