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EC forces govt to transfer of Mandya DC over allegations of favouring Nikhil

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April 10, 2019

Bengaluru, Apr 10: The Karnataka government on Tuesday transferred the Mandya Deputy Commissioner N Manjushree, who was also the District Election Officer, on the Election Commission's direction.

"On the EC directive, Commissioner of Public Instruction PC Jaffer has been posted as Deputy Commissioner and returning officer of Mandya with immediate effect," said an official statement issued by the State Election .

The poll panel's direction came after the Bharatiya Janata Party filed a complaint against Manjushree for allegedly favouring JD(S) candidate Nikhil K, son of Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, and being biased against his Independent rival, multilingual actress Sumalatha Ambareesh, whom the BJP is supporting.

The decision was made after Chief Electoral Officer Sanjeev Kumar went to Mandya to probe the allegations.

Sumalatha and her aides had alleged that the DC did not act on their complaint over alleged errors in nomination papers submitted by Nkhil Kumaraswamy. 

Polling in Mandya and 13 other seats will be held on April 18 in the first phase of the Lok Sabha election in Karnataka.

Earlier in a similar move, the  Election Commission had shunted out Hassan Deputy Commissioner Akram Pasha following a complaint from Hassan legislator Preetham Gowda (BJP) who accused him of working in a partisan manner. Akram was accused of favouring Prajwal Revanna.

Instead IAS officer Priyanka Mary Francis was posted as Hassan's new Deputy Commissioner.

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June 26,2020

Belthangady, Jun 26: Thieves broke into a house at Kalmanja village in Belthangady taluk of Dakshina Kannada during the wee hours on Friday and decamped with cash and valuables worth Rs 13 lakhs after tying the inmates of an areca merchant's house.

Police said the stolen valuables include 40 sovereigns gold, one kg silver and cash of Rs 25,000. The robbery took place in the house of Achyut Bhat who is an areca merchant in Ujire.

The house inmates opened the door after hearing dogs barking. Immediately the criminals, wearing masks, barged into the house and threatening to kill tied them before escaping with the booty.

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June 16,2020

Kalaburagi, Jun 16: Stones were pelted by villagers at an ambulance and a vehicle of health department at Tanda village here, which was fetching 15 people who had tested positive for COVID-19 to a hospital for treatment.

"A medical team along with some police personnel had gone to the Tanda village to bring 15 people who had tested positive for COVID-19 to a hospital for treatment on Monday," Lada Martin Marbaniang, Superintendent of Police (SP) Kalaburagi said.

"The medical team had an argument with villagers, which turned violent and those people started pelting stones at the ambulance and a vehicle of the health department," the SP said.

"On getting information, we rushed more security forces to the village. I visited the spot and spoke to a few leaders. Subsequently, we were able to convince them and all of them were brought to the hospital. A case has been registered against violent offenders," he added.

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January 5,2020

Udupi, Jan 5: The district administration has identified 460 beneficiaries who will be allotted flats at Herga under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, informed MLA Raghupati Bhat.

Speaking to reporters here on Sunday he said the Udupi Municipal Council will construct the apartments in the 8.22 acres of land earmarked for the purpose at Herga. The flats will be ready before April 2021.

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