Muharram flag triggers communal clash: 2 corporators among 31 arrested

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October 13, 2016

Belagavi, Oct 13: A tense atmosphere prevailed in the city after hoisting of green flags near Shetty Galli area as part of Muharram celebration led to communal clashes in the region.

MuharramNearly a dozen vehicles, including a police jeep were damaged in the incidents of stone pelting and arson. Miscreants damaged three auto-rickshaws, set another on fire, stoned four four-wheelers and a police jeep.

Following a heated arguments, the two groups belonging to different religious communities took to stone throwing at Shetty Galli. The violence spread to other sensitive areas of the city such as Bhadkal Galli, Chavat Galli, Khadak Galli and Darbar Galli on Tuesday night, the police said.

The trouble began when a group of people belonging to hardline Hindutva outfits staged protest and pelted stones when the Muharram flags were hoisted at the Shetty Galli corner. Sad part is, the clash took place when people celebrating holy festivals Dasara and Muharram.

Now the situation is under control with the heavy police security has deployed in the tensed areas including KSRP platoons. Police have taken 31 people belonging to both communities in to the custody including two corporators of Belagavi City Corporation - Mujmil Ahamad Doni of Ward 35 and Amtin Shaikh Ali of Ward 37.

According to local sources, stone pelting started on top roofs at 11.30pm at Chaval Galli, Shetty Galli and Jalagar Galli, and continued for few minutes. At the time, people coming out of homes, police led by DCP Radhika reached the spot and arrested miscreants engaged in creating disturbance. According to police sources, stone pelting began after few minutes of the meeting held by both councillors.

Women stage protest

In the backdrop of incident, women from Chavat Galli and Shetty Galli stage protest in the premises of city police commissioner's office blaming the police for taking innocents into custody. Women also alleged that police entered their houses breaking the doors at midnight and took the family members into custody who were innocent and nothing to do with riot. They urged the commissioner immediate release of innocents.

BJP leaders including MP Suresh Angadi, former MLA Abhay Patil, advocate Anil Benake and Kiran Jadhav visited the areas stone pelting occurred. Speaking on the occasion, Suresh Angadi blamed police for taking biased action. "It looks police are targeting people of one particular community bowing to the political pressure and arresting innocent youths" he said and urged immediate release of innocents.

On Wednesday morning, Belagavi North MLA Feroz Sait and Congress city unit President Asif (Raju) Sait rushed to the police commissioners office and held closed-door discussions with senior officers.

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shaji
 - 
Thursday, 13 Oct 2016

Media report on closed door discussin between police commissiner and congress leaders is nothing but bias and completely false. Everyone knows that Media belongs to, managed by and working for sangh parivar. As real terrorists of sangh parivar are arrested, their leaders are shivering due to fear that real culprits behind the planned attack on Muharram procession will be brought to notice.

shaji
 - 
Thursday, 13 Oct 2016

It is clear that the trouble and goondagiri started by the terrorists of Sangh Parivar and when police caught the real culprits sangh parivar is blaming police. What a shame. Chore ulta kotwal ko dante. Police should not bow to political pressure from bjp leaders and arrest the terrorists under goonda act. It was well planned attack by Sangh parivar goondas/terrorists.

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April 21,2020

Apr 21: An 80-year-old COVID-19 patient has died in Karnataka's Kalaburagi district, taking the death toll in the state to 17, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said on Tuesday.

The elderly person was suffering from Parkinson's disease for the last three years and died at a hospital on Monday, the minister said in a tweet.

"The person had developed fever on Sunday and was admitted to the hospital. The patient passed away yesterday at 9 am. Last night at 9 pm the death report came, which confirmed that the person was COVID-19 positive," Sudhakar tweeted.

The total number of COVID-19 infections in the state has crossed the 400-mark, according to last evening's bulletin by the Karnataka health department.

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May 26,2020

Newsroom, May 26: A migrant worker died of hunger while a 10-month-old boy suffering from fever and breathing difficulties died negligence in two separate incidents onboard Shramik Special trains in Uttar Pradesh.

The 46-year-old dead migrant worker’s nephew, who was accompanying him, said that the victim had not eaten anything in the last 60 hours.

Raveesh Yadav said that no food or water was provided on the train, which they had boarded from Mumbai to travel to their native place in Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh.

Yadav and his uncle were working as construction workers in Mumbai.

Yadav told the paper that the train had left the Lokmanya Terminal in Mumbai, at 7pm on May 20 and arrived at its final stop, Varanasi Cantonment station, at 7.30am on May 23.

“But my uncle, who was complaining of hunger and pain all over his body, fainted half an hour before we reached Varanasi Cantonment and died within a few minutes,” Raveesh was quoted as saying.

He added that he and his uncle were hungry when they boarded the train but could not find food or water to buy.

Railways’ apathy

Meanwhile, the family of 10 month old child, who died in the train, alleged that the railways did not arrange for a doctor despite their repeated pleas.

The railway doctors had been moved to Covid-19 hospitals and by the time a doctor was provided at Tundla railway station, it was too late, the report quoted the child's grandfather, Dev Lal, as saying.

Lal said that the family members had tried to speak to the GRP at many stations, including at Aligarh, where the train had halted. "But they showed no interest and said any help would be available only in Tundla,” Lal said.

Railways officials then took the kin to a quarantine centre in Tundla, as they suspected that the baby had died because of the novel coronavirus.  It was only on Monday that the incident came to light when another individual at the quarantine facility intimated journalists after the condition of the child's mother worsened.

Last November, the mother of the child, Priyanka Devi of Bihar's Notan village in West Champaran, had gone to visit her parents who reside in Noida with the baby, who was then just four months old. Her husband Pramod Kumar is a farmer, the report added.

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andh bakth
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Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Vote for BJP and you need only hindutva dont worry about food, job etc.......jai modiji

very sad for baby:(

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February 25,2020

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