Kickback to BJP high command: Forensic lab confirms voices of Yeddy, Ananth

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October 9, 2017

Bengaluru, Oct 9: Around seven months after a controversial conversation between Karnataka BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa and Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister H N Ananth Kumar went viral, a Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report has confirmed their voices in the video/audio file in which they were heard discussing the 'kickback' paid to BJP central leadership’.

The cyber police of the Bengaluru City had registered a FIR (40/2017) after receiving a complaint from a Congress worker. With this FSL report, the case may now be transferred to Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), sources said.

CM Dhananjaya, chairman of KPCC’s legal cell, had filed a complaint on February 15 over the conversation about the payment made to the BJP central leadership. The Cyber police had sent the video file to the FSL. The FSL report, a copy of which is available with DH, stated that both the video and audio pertaining to the said conversation matches with the sample video and audio of the two leaders. The FSL report was sent to the Police Inspector of Cyber Crime police station on October 4.

Earlier, the two leaders had not turned up to give voice samples. The Congress moved the court seeking directions to the leaders to give their voice samples. The court then directed both to appear before the cybercrime police to provide their voice samples.

The conversation between the two leaders was part of a series of allegations and counter allegations between the Congress and the BJP leaders. In February 2017, BJP leaders released the contents of a diary, reportedly recovered by the Income Tax sleuths from Congress MLC K Govindaraj who was raided in March 2016. The diary had entries which the BJP claimed as definite information that the state Congress paid huge sums of money to its high command.

Soon after that, the Congress released a video footage in which Ananth Kumar and Yeddyurappa were talking about kickbacks to the BJP central leadership. The conversation between the two leaders was recorded on the sidelines of the executive committee meeting of the Bengaluru city unit of the BJP on February 12. The two leaders were heard discussing the issue while Union minister D V Sadananda Gowda was delivering his speech at the meet.

A senior police official said that the Cyber Crime Police station had registered the FIR under sections 43, 66 of Information Technology Act and sections 120 (a), 120 (b), 124 (a) of IPC. “Since the FSL report is positive, the case may be transferred to the ACB for further investigation as it involves alleged payment of kickbacks,’’ the official said.

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“You have given it to the high command... I have also given…But I have not given Rs 1,000 crore… As you had given it then, he has also given it seems. This implies that he (chief minister) has admitted it,” Ananth Kumar apparently told Yeddyurappa. To this, Yeddyurappa asked: “Does anybody write down what is given?” Then Ananth Kumar says, “Slush rebounds on throwing a stone into it. Nobody will believe if the chief minister says he has not given Rs 1,000 crore. Everybody will think that he has given the money.”

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Case against Shobha Karandlaje in Kerala over communal tweet

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January 24,2020

Newsroom, Jan 24: BJP leader and Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Shobha Karandlaje has been booked by Kerala police over a misleading and communally provocative social media post.

Karandlaje had tweeted that that Hindus from a colony in Kuttipuram in Malappuram district were denied water supply as they supported the the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

"Kerala is taking baby steps to become another Kashmir. Hindus of Kuttipuram Panchayat of Malappuram was denied water supply as they supported #CAA2019. #SevaBharati has been supplying water ever since. Will Lutyens telecast this intolerance of PEACEFULS frm God's Own Country!?," she tweeted.

A case has been booked under section 153(A) of IPC (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race etc). Karandlaje took to Twitter to slam the Kerala government, and said it had lodged a complaint against her instead of acting against the discrimination faced by dalit families of Cherukunnu.

"It is high time the society unites against these pressure tactics of a non-performing, biased left government," she said.

Karandlaje claimed that the CAA had been accepted by both houses of Parliament and people supporting the Act were facing boycott in business and were being denied basic amenities and jobs. "The CPI(M) government is blind to all these incidents across Kerala, but files a case against me for speaking the truth!" she retorted.

According to reportage from multiple outlets, the colony in Malappuram district's Kuttippuram was dependent on a private individual for water; then came accusations that they were denied the water for attending BJP's pro-CAA rally.

A resident of the colony was quoted by a newspaper, “We were denied drinking water because our husbands participated in a meeting organised to gather support for the CAA. Some people told the family that they should not give drinking water to us because CAA is a threat to the people in their community.”

However, the individual in question denied the accusation, claiming a lack of water because of technical issues.

The case was registered after a complaint by lawyer Subhash Chandran, a resident of Malappuram. Aravindan E.A., SI of Kuttippuram police, said, "From a private person's borewell, water was being provided to the people of the colony. This motor had taken for agricultural work and he was recently issued a warning by State Electricity Board. He was told that if he uses the motor for any other purpose, power supply would be disconnected. He then had stopped using the pump following the crisis worsened.”

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This is BJP's usual drama. If your bloody seva bharathi people denied water, there is strong govt and youths to provide water. and other facilities

Sobhakka's adhika prasanga wont work in kerala. She should visit kerala and experience. She can only boast via social media

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Mangaluru: Agricultural produce vendors begin indefinite strike

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April 6,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 6: Agricultural produce vendors have decided to hold an indefinite strike from Monday here in city's Central Market.

This move comes in response to district administration’s order asking them to shift to the APMC yard at Baikampady and not heeding to their appeal to allow them to operate from the Market and other areas in the city.

The district administration has decided to shift the vendors in order to prevent crowding in the market and maintain social distancing norms.

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Covid-19 patient passes away in Udupi

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May 16,2020

Udupi, May 16: Close on the heels of six Covid-19 cases being detected in a little over 24 hours, Udupi recorded its first death of a Covid-19 patient. The victim is a 54-year-old man from Mumbai, who died due to a heart attack on Thursday. His reports came back on Saturday, and confirmed that he had Covid-19. The Udupi district administration has arranged to carry out his last rites as per government designated guidelines for Covid-19 victims.

A medical bulletin issued by the superintendent of Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, stated that the patient was admitted due to a heart-related issue on May 13.

Some members on the team that treated the patient have been quarantined. The hospital’s emergency department will operate as usual, and the outpatient department will operate as usual from 8.30am to 1pm, following government guidelines, the bulletin said. Deputy commissioner G Jagadeesha said that since the patient was from Mumbai, the authorities collected his swab sample for testing, as a precautionary measure.

The man suffered from chest pain, and was initially taken to the taluk hospital at Kundapur from where he was shifted to Kasturba Hospital, due to the seriousness of his condition. The doctors operated on him on May 13, and he suffered a severe heart attack on May 14 and died, the DC said. “Three hospital staff without PPE kits, who attended to the patient, have been quarantined,” the DC said, adding that the operating doctors and nurses had worn PPE kits.

In addition, 5 others who travelled with the person from Mumbai and 57 people with him at the Kundapur isolation centre, have been designated as primary contacts, and 38 others as secondary contacts, and quarantined. The staff at Kundapur taluk hospital too had taken precautions in handling the patient, the DC said. Udupi presently has six active cases, including a 1-year-old child and 5 others, all of whom returned from Dubai on May 12.

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