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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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February 16,2020

Kalaburagi, Feb 16: Fourteen years of life in jail has not deterred Subhash Patil from fulfilling his dream of becoming a doctor.

The 40-year-old man from Afzalpura in Karnataka's Kalaburagi was put behind bars in a murder case while doing MBBS in 1997.

Speaking to media, Patil said, "I joined MBBS in 1997. But, I was jailed in a murder case in 2002. I worked at the jail's OPD and was released in 2016 for good conduct. I completed my MBBS in 2019."

Earlier this month, Patil completed a one-year mandatory internship for getting the MBBS course degree.

Police arrested Patil in 2002 in a murder case when he was in his third year of MBBS course. A court sentenced him to life imprisonment in 2006.

He was put behind bars but he did not give up his childhood dream of becoming a doctor.

In 2016, police released Patil on Independence day for his good conduct.

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January 19,2020

Davanagere, Jan 19: Seven people, including four women, were arrested for allegedly selling a 13-month-old female baby here on Saturday.

Police said that the baby was sold to a couple who had no child. The couple hailed from Ranebennur town in Haveri District of Karnataka. They sold the baby, which was their fourth child.

The arrested were identified as Kavita (26) and her husband Manjunath (couple who sold the baby), Dakshayani (34) and her husband Ravi (49) of Ranebennur, Haveri District (the couple who purchased the baby, Chitramma (44) Nurse, Kamalamma (45) and Karibasappa, who acted as middlemen for the deal.

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April 5,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 5: The COVID-19 related lockdown has substantially improved the air quality of Bengaluru, taking it from satisfactory level to good, a senior state pollution control board offcial said here on Sunday.

"During the course of the lockdown 19 problem, we reached good position from satisfactory.

It is between zero to 50 AQI (Air Quality Index) now. We have good quality air," the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board member secretary Basavaraj Patil told PTI.

He said the indicator for knowing the air quality in

"If the AQI is zero to 50 then it is good. If it is 50 to 100 then it is satisfactory. 101 to 150 is moderate and if it is 151 to 200, then it is poor, he explained.

Patil said as per available recrods, there has been a 60 to 65 per cent reduction in pollution during the lockdown.

The city railway station and Peenya industrial area, which used to be among the areas with highest AQI, has seen pollution levels come down significantly, he said.

Another major contributor of pollution was construction activities, which too had ground to a halt due to the lockdown, resulting in zero dust emission.

Patil opined that the improved air quality would boost the immune system of the people.

"It will improve the immune system of people, including those who have breathing problems like asthma," he said.

He asked the public to learn lessons from the lockdown and later switch to sustainable means of transport such as public transport, walking and cycling,.

"We can still reduce the pollution load even after the lockdown is over," Patil said.

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