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DK has highest cases of police atrocities in state'

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March 1, 2011

Mangalore, March 1: Dakshina Kannada district tops in the state in the list of police atrocities and human rights suppression said former Karnataka High Court Judge, Justice Michael F Saldanha.

He was speaking after releasing a fact-finding report “State Terrorism-Police Atrocities in the Karavali Area” which is based on people's tribunal enquiry conducted by Peoples' Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), an organization devoted to the preservation of constitutional civil liberties and human rights here on Tuesday.

When Transparency International, a human rights organization conducted a study in the year 2008, 2009 and 2010, it found that maximum number of police atrocity cases and human rights violation took place in the Dakshina Kannada followed by Udupi, Shimoga and Cickmagalur.

He said Amnesty International had already listed India as the fifth worst country with large number of human rights violation cases.

Beef traders and cattle traders were the main victims of these atrocities, Justice Saldanha said.

Citing Justice SR Nayak, Chairman of State Human Rights Commission, Saldanha said that despite he had passed 1211 orders related to human rights violations across the State, not a single accused has been punished.

Saldanha said “On November 8, 2008 when I and social activist Swamy Agnivesh visited the MSEZ site, two criminal cases were registered against us. There was also an attempt to murder me. This is the fate of people of Dakshina Kannada.” Despite 1.8 crore from the exchequer, has been spending on Police, there is no security for minorities especially for Muslims and Christians.

Some of the Recommendations

As an immediate measure, the State Government must set up Forums at the district level and the State level where individuals and their representatives will be able to point out specific instances of police atrocities and misconduct. These forums should have a monthly dialogue with the people's representatives where the action taken will have to be made public.

Similarly, at the district level and state level, the judiciary must set up a grievance cell which will be presided over by a Judge who will entertain complaints of miscarriage of Justice such as refusal to hear urgent applications, deferring orders for abnormally long periods of time and the action taken will have to be made public within a month, so that there will be total transparency of functioning.

In the cases of women's rights or atrocities and violence against women and human rights specific action is required from the state government with a public assurance.

PB D'Sa, State President, Walter Maben, Vice President, Muhammad Kakkinje, Vice President of NCHRO, Ali Hasan, President of Karnataka Beef Merchant's Association, BV Seetharam, Chief Editor of Karavali Ale who is also a victim of police atrocity, and victims Melwyn Pinto and Francis Karkala, were present on the occasion.

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July 29,2020

Mangaluru, July 29: Justifying the transfer of Dakshina Kannada deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh, district in-charge minister Kota Shrinivas Poojari has accused Mangaluru MLA U T Khader of politicizing the issue. 

The IAS officer was transferred by the Karnataka government on July 28, a day after a saffron activist issued a death threat against her on social media after she warned of legal action against the miscreants who attack cattle traders.

Condemning the development, Mr Khader had tweeted that the state government has punished the deputy commissioner instead of punishing the culprit, who issued death threat.

Responding to Mr Khader’s tweet, Mr Poojari said that the transfer of the officer was on administrative ground. “It is unfortunate that Khader politicized a transfer carried out by the government on administrative ground. This is not Khader’s time to protect any accused,” tweeted Mr Poojari. 

It is worth mentioning here that Mr Khader was the district in-charge minister of Dakshina Kannada before Mr Poojari taking over the position. 

Meanwhile, police has arrested a person in connection with the death threat against the IAS officer.

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May 25,2020

Benglauru, May 25: Nearly one thousand people in the capital city of Karnataka have lost several crores of rupees to online fraudsters during the two months of covid-19 lockdown.

According to official sources, 962 cases of online frauds have been registered in various police stations across Bengaluru March 23 to May 19. 

On an average, 18 cases were reported every day. However, this number isn’t unusually high compared to normal times, according to police. The highest number of cases was registered in west division (227). 

What baffles the cops is the brazenness with which fraudsters attacked. Many fraudsters duped people in the name of providing jobs, insurance money, Employees’ Provident Fund, renewal of credit/debit cards. 
Many people lost money while procuring groceries, alcohol, masks and hand sanitisers delivered at the doorstep. Olx and Facebook scams thrived during the prolonged lockdown. 

Police said malicious links were shared on mobile phones asking recipients to download the Aarogya Setu app and seeking banking information, all targeted at stealing phone data. 

An officer said many were glued to their phones, and cybercriminals took advantage of this, sometimes pretending to be bank representatives wanting to issue/ renew credit/debit cards.

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February 23,2020

The euphoria over the claim that around 3,000 tonnes of gold reserves, worth Rs 12 trillion, have been discovered in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district could not last even 24 hours, with the Geological Survey of India (GSI) clarifying on Saturday there had been no such discovery.

The GSI, headquartered in Kolkata, rebutted the claims of the Uttar Pradesh Directorate of Geology and Mining (UPDGM), and said “miscommunication” must have led to the wrong reporting of facts.

M Sridhar, director general of the GSI, said nobody in the agency gave any such data. He said 52,806 tonnes of gold ore was found in Sonbhadra district during the exploration work in 1998-2000. From this reserve, only 160 kg of gold can be extracted.

“There must have been some miscommunication of facts because of which the gold ore deposits have been overestimated. We have written a letter to Uttar Pradesh (UPDGM), stating the facts. The GSI has not estimated such kind of vast resource of gold deposits in Sonbhadra,” Sridhar said.

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The UPDGM had said on Friday that gold deposits were found in Son Pahadi and Hardi areas of the district. Sridhar said while gold ore was found in the area during the GSI’s exploration work in 1998-2000, it had told the state government about the discovery in November last year.

Under the new regulation, which came into effect from 2015, the GSI has to inform the state government when ore deposits are discovered. Earlier, no such action was mandatory. In its report, the GSI estimated that only 3.03 gm of gold can be extracted from a tonne of ore. It also clarified that even the extraction amount was tentative and could not be established for certain.

Moreover, Sridhar said the deposits were spread across only 0.5 sq km in forest land, which made the mining of ore economically unviable. “When there are several mines nearby, we can club it into a block and then it makes sense to mine the ore. But in this case, the deposits are too small to make it viable for any company to mine it,” he said. The GSI usually prioritises its exploration work based on the needs of the Centre. While strategic minerals like tin, cobalt, lithium, beryllium, germanium, gallium, indium, tantalum, niobium, selenium, and bismuth are atop the list in GSI exploration, gold is another commodity on its priority list.

According to the World Gold Council, India has reserves of 630 tonnes of gold.

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