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PFI workers murdered Praveen Poojary for attack on prayer hall: IGP

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August 27, 2016

Madikeri, Aug 27: Kodagu Sangh Parivar activist Praveen Poojary was murdered by a group of Popular Front of India (PFI) activists in retaliation for a stone-throwing incident at a prayer hall during the torchlight procession organised by the Hindu Jagrana Vedike in Kushalnagar, Inspector General of Police (Southern Range), B?K?Singh, has said.

1retaliationPraveen Poojary, an auto-rickshaw driver by profession was stabbed to death at Guddehosur in Kushalnagar taluk on the eve of Independence Day. (This is not the case of Udupi BJP worker Praveen Poojary, who was beaten to death by Hindu Jagarana Vedike activists for involving in illegal cow transportation on August 17)

The Kodagu police have taken five out of eight arrested persons into their custody in connection with the murder. The police are grilling the suspects. Three others have been remanded in judicial custody.

According to police the accused vowed allegiance to PFI. Those who are in police custody are M H Tufail (28), of Madikeri, Nayaz (32) of Hunsur, Mohammed Mustafa (34), working in Coorg Spices in Madikeri, Iliyaz (35) of Kushalnagar and Irfan Ahmmed of Hunasoor N S Colony in the their custody and have intensified their interrogation.

Other arrested PFI district secretary T A Haris (30) of Gondibasavanahalli, Mujeeb Rehman (22) of Madapattana in Kushalnagar and Shareef of Gondibasavanahalli have been remanded in judicial custody. Another suspect Mohammed Afreen is still at large.

Speaking to media persons, IGP (Southern Range) B K Singh said the police have seized one motorcycle, a car, two knives and 10 mobile phones from the arrested.

Nayaz was involved in a riot at NR Mohalla in 2009 and Mandi Mohalla of Mysuru in 2008. Thufail was prime suspect in an assault on B S Nandakumar, in 2012 at Madikeri Rural Police Station jurisdiction.

Murdered after procession

The IGP said the Praveen Poojary had taken part in the torchlight procession organised by Hindu Jagarana Vedike in Kushalnagar on the night of August 14. During the procession the Hindutva activists had allegedly pelted stones at a prayer hall and houses belonging to Muslims.

While Poojary was returning home after the procession, he was murdered at Bettageri road in Guddehosur. The murder was a retaliation for pelting stones at a prayer hall during torchlight procession, the IGP explained.

Suspecting that Muslims were abused during the torchlight procession, the nine suspects had decided to retaliate. Shareef and Haris had called other suspects at 8.30 pm and had questioned on what they were doing even after stones were pelted.

Under the guidance of SP P Rajendra Prasad and Kushalnagar DySP P Kumar, a team of DCIB Inspector B R Lingappa, Suntikoppa PSI Anoop Madappa, CPI Kyathe Gowda, PSIs J E Mahesh, A P Seetharam, DCIB sleuths Hameed, Thammaiah, Venkatesh, Anil, Yogesh Kumar, Niranjana, Vasanth, Shashikumar, Mahesh, Rajesh, Girish, Jose Nishanth, Sunil Kumar, Siddarth, Pundareekshaka, Ravi, Joseph, Samath Rai nabbed the suspects. The DGP has announced cash prize of Rs 1 lakh to the team which nabbed the suspects.

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babu bajarangi
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Saturday, 27 Aug 2016

Yes naren venki, if sanga parivar will attack musslims we will never sit like you we will find out who is real culprit and we will tak care him if you also never mind

fahad anwar
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Saturday, 27 Aug 2016

I don't why the police department simply grab peaceful social organisation any proof that their member of that organisation no actually all department were knew that if sanghi conducting any event in public they will do any crisis that's for sure so why the particular department giving permission to do like a event....totally department failed to controll peace in society.

naren kotian
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Saturday, 27 Aug 2016

Venki bhai , dont worry :) , becoz they know it is khangrace , even if they commit henious acts they will be out , but their base will crumble and their design of islamic state in india .. under the disguise of secularism will soon be evaporated ... and days are not far , they will have to pay for it . more they kill hindus , it is creating very good polarisation for BJP and towards sangh ... it is a premeditated murrder , becoz one of the killer from uppinangadi ... and one from madikeri , 2 from kerala .. 3 from hunsur .. 1 from k r nagar belt ... it shows they planned and grouped in Kushalnagar to execute the kill . PFI is using muslim terrorists from coastal to create problem in rest of karnataka ... in coastal they are using their cadres from hale mysore ... they will pay soon for unleashing attacks on nationalist Indians ...

Nazeer
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Saturday, 27 Aug 2016

PFI never support anti constitute work Police department and state government responsible for the evils

Nazeer
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Saturday, 27 Aug 2016

PFI never support anti constitute work . Police department and state government responsible for the evils

Nazeer
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Saturday, 27 Aug 2016

PFI never support to anti constitute work. It's just aligation Police department and state government responsible for the evils

SK
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Saturday, 27 Aug 2016

Polic dept is RESPONSIBLE for all evils of the society.....See what happened during Ramya's visit to Mangalore... RSS police could not control handful of chaddis at the airport / at the meeting....Impxxxxtent police ....

Praveen
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Saturday, 27 Aug 2016

Who ever Murdered me ....they have done right thing...because i would have grown more violent under saffron terrorist outfit , and would have killed children like in Gujrat bhivandi and Bhagalpur

Mustak Mohamme…
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Saturday, 27 Aug 2016

Well said precaution is better than cure if the police depth had taken action during procession itself one life would've been saved.

S.M. Nawaz Kuk…
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Saturday, 27 Aug 2016

Stone pelted on masjid and muslim homes during the Chaddi procession and its Revenge murder of that incident.
Nobody has rights to take law on hand either Chaddi or PFI, If police dept. catch the culprit during the procession then he could have saved his life.

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August 4,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 4: Police barricades, yellow banners, walls with a fresh coat of paint and the sounds of bhajan mark parts of Ayodhya as the city awaits its big day Wednesday, when the first brick will be laid for the Ram temple.

Ayodhya is decked up for the bhoomi pujan that will be attended at the Ram Janmabhoomi by 175 people, who figure in a select guest list of seers and politicians topped by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Concerned over the spread of coronavirus, the authorities are encouraging others not to come to the temple town, asking them to mark the occasion by celebrating at their homes. The groundbreaking ceremony will be telecast live.

Roads leading to Ayodhya display hoardings with the picture of the proposed Ram temple and of Ram Lalla, the infant Ram, the deity now housed in a makeshift temple.

Around the town’s Hanumangarhi area – named after a well-known temple which Modi will visit on Wednesday – both police sirens and ‘bhajans’ in praise of Ram are heard.

Most of the shops in the locality wear a new look, with their fronts painted in bright yellow. A large number of policemen were deployed there on Tuesday. Some sat in the sweet shops, waiting for their next instructions.

Roads leading into the area are barricaded. Yards of yellow cloth and marigold garlands were being hung on poles.

Even on the day before the event, security checks on vehicles heading to Ayodhya begin from adjoining Barabanki district itself on the Lucknow-Ayodhya road. Policemen take down details, including mobile numbers of the travellers.

Senior Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar said the focus of the force is on maintaining the Covid-19 protocol.

“So we are not going to allow any outsider to enter Ayodhya city,” he said. Prohibitory orders are also in force and not more than four people will be allowed to gather.

“The markets and shops will remain open but with strict adherence to the Covid protocol,” he said. Outsiders will be stopped from entering the city, but Ayodhya residents will be allowed in if they produce any identification document.

“We are also carrying out random checks on people living in Ayodhya to ensure that no outsiders are staying here,” he said.

The city’s temples and mosques will remain open, but no other religious event – except for the bhoomi pujan – will take place on Wednesday.

Pickets have been set up at sensitive points in the city.

Sub-inspector Ram Chandra Yadav and constables Avnish Kumar and Ankit Chaudhary man the Terhi Bazar Chauraha picket near the Ram Janmabhoomi site.

"We are here for the past some days, and were on duty on the Rakshabandhan day. Duty comes first and only after that come other things in life, like festivals," Yadav said.

Mayank Gupta, who runs a restaurant, was handing out food packets to policemen, his customers.

"For the last two months, I have been providing tiffin to them twice a day. There are around 100 policemen to whom I supply tiffin," Gupta said.

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Bengaluru, Feb 2: The monthlong budget session beginning on Monday, which will mark BS Yediyurappa’s maiden budget in his fourth term as chief minister, is expected to be a fiery one.

The opposition JD(S) and Congress have already threatened to stall proceeding until BJP legislator Basangouda Patil Yatnal apologises for his controversial remarks against freedom fighter and centenarian HS Doreswamy. Yatnal had called him a fake and a Pakistani agent.

Disruptions are also likely to pose a threat to speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri’s novel idea of having a two-day discussion on the Constitution of India to commemorate 70 years of the country’s Independence.

Both opposition parties have scheduled legislature party meetings early on Monday and they could coordinate on issues on the floor of the house to put the BJP — especially Yediyurappa — on the backfoot.

Yatnal is not known as a “hardliner”, but his attack on Doreswamy has garnered support from several ministers including CT Ravi, KS Eshwarappa and V Somanna. Yediyurappa may have a hard time defending his party’s line.

The BJP is yet to schedule its legislature party meeting, but MLAs suggest the party will allow the issue to be raised and debated in the legislature. “Both have expressed their point of view. Let there be a discussion on the matter, but not allowing the house to function will only be a waste of the state’s time and money,” said deputy chief minister CN Ashwath Narayan.

Besides the Doreswamy issue, Yediyurappa will also deliver his reply — postponed from February 20 — to the debate on the governor’s address. The issue of student Amulya Leona Narona’s arrest on a charge of sedition, the Bidar sedition case involving a parent of a school student, pro-Pakistan writings on walls in places in north Karnataka, introduction of NPR and the anti-CAA stir is also likely to feature during the lengthy session.

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