High Court stays sanction given to prosecute Kalladka Bhat in hate speech case

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July 14, 2017

Mangaluru, Jul 14: In what can be termed as a legal victory for RSS veteran Prabhakar Bhat Kalladka, the Karnataka High Court of Karnataka on Thursday stayed the sanction granted by the State government for prosecuting him in a case of delivering a communally provocative speech in 2015.

bhatkalladkaThe High Court also stayed the summons issued to him by a local court in Puttur which had taken cognisance of offence based on a charge sheet. Justice Aravind Kumar passed the interim order on a petition filed by Dr Bhat.

Puttur Town police had registered a case on January 23, 20015 against the petitioner based on a complaint given by a member of Popular Front of India’s (PFI) district committee.

The Puttur court had issued summons to him on June 24, 2017 based on the charge sheet filed by the police after the State government on March 18, 2017 granted sanction for prosecuting him based on a request made by the police on March 8, 2017.

Terming the allegations as false, it has been claimed in the petition that the Forensic Sciences Laboratory’s report given in January 2016 had stated that the “electronic evidence collected by the police during the course of the investigation is not original and the same is tampered and edited one ...”

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Sunday, 16 Jul 2017

Hope Siddaramayya's order will be followed by ACB ....

this shows that Shaheed Mustafa kavoor was hacked to death with support of inmate and officers

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June 27,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 27: The Bengaluru Police Commissioner’s office on Infantry Road has been sealed after one of the staffers tested Covid-positive. It will remain shut from June 27 to 29. 

A senior police officer from the administrative department, in a media release, stated that almost the entire staff has been asked to work from home, while some have told to work from sub-divisions of DCP’s offices. 

It is said that one of the staffers, who recently reported for duty at Anti-Terror Cell (ATC), tested positive on Friday, and officials took a decision to seal the premises after the media got wind of it. 

Earlier, a function for Drug Observation Day too was held on the premises on Friday. The staff has not been asked to go on quarantine. 

Only a few staffers have been asked to come to the police control room situated in the same building.

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January 1,2020

Udupi, Jan 1: A 53-year-old Journalist of a Mangalore-based media house was found dead at his flat in Manipal on Tuesday.

The deceased has been identified as Rohit Raj (53), a resident of Pandeshwar Mangaluru.

According to the Manipal police, on December 31, Rohit Raj had attended a New Year party celebration at Kadiyali, Udupi along with his wife.

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May 9,2020

Mangaluru, Ma 9: Three more persons from Bantwal taluk in Dakshina Kannada district tested positive for Covid-19 today. All three are members of a family.

The infection is reportedly linked to First Neuro Hospital of Mangaluru, which has emerged as a coronavirus hub in coastal Karnataka.

With this, the total number of coronavirus cases in the district mounted to 31 including six outsiders. Three of them have lost their lives. Currently there are 15 active cases in the district.

The newly identified coronavirus patients are a 30-year-old man and two elderly women aged 60 and 70 years.

They have contracted the infection from a 69-year-old man from Bantwal who was confirmed with COVID-19 infection on May 1. All the three members now infected belong to his family.

The man had got the infection from a woman identified as P-390. He happens to be a relative and neighbour of the deceased woman who belonged to Bantwal Kasaba village. Eight  members of his family were quarantined, of whom three tested positive today.

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