It's Vikala Chetana Yatra, not Jan Chetana: Rai

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October 26, 2011

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Mangalore, October 26: Dubbing the BJP veteran L K Advani's 'Jan Chetana Yatra' as 'Vikala Chetana (handicapped) Yatra', Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee president and Bantwal MLA B Ramanath Rai taunted the 84-year-old leader asking him how could his party rally against corruption in Karnataka, where the its own government is immersed in rampant corruption.

Addressing the media persons at DCC office here on Wednesday, Mr Rai questioned the BJP leaders, if they have any moral right to speak against corruption, when their top leaders are openly involved in monstrous scandals in Karnataka and marching into jail one by one.

“Former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, who is also the first BJP chief minister of a south Indian state, has landed in jail, along with his ministerial colleagues Katta Subrahmanya Naidu and S N Krishnaiah Shetty. Another former BJP minister G Janardhana Reddy is in Chanchagalaguda jail in Hyderabad for illegal mining in Andhra Pradesh. Moreover Home Minister R Ashoka and Industries Minister Murugesh Nirani are now facing land grabbing charges. The list of politicians from the ruling BJP to face a police probe into land grab charges, is still growing. In this juncture, does the BJP possess moral any right to take out an-anti corruption rally in Karnataka?” he questioned.

“This Yatra is nothing but a futile bid to rekindle the political image of the octogenarian leader and his party”, he stated.

Taking a dig at Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, Mr Rai said that the latter is trying to justify the corruption of State government by pointing fingers at Centre.

He also satirized CM's new promise of 'pothole-free roads' in the state, recalling his predecessor's promise of 'hut-free-state'. “Yeddyurappa ended up in jail without building houses for poor. Now his successor has come up with a new promise. These are all examples for their political bankruptcy,” Mr Rai said.

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June 16,2020

Mangaluru, June 16: A youth has been arrested by the sleuths of Ullal police station on charge of sexually assaulting a minor girl and impregnating her on the outskirts of the city. 

The arrested has been identified as Lavakumar alias Shravan, a resident of Valacchil, who was working in a fast-food outlet at Thokkottu. 

According to the police, the accused had sexually assaulted his owner’s minor daughter. The incident came to light when the girl’s mother came to know that former was pregnant.

It is said that the girl’s mother, who had employed the accused, allowed him to stay in their house. The accused befriended the minor girl and sexually used her.

Based on a complaint filed by the girl’s mother, a case was registered at Ullal police station under Pocso Act. The police arrested him yesterday and produced him before a local court.

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February 18,2020

Mangaluru, Feb 18: Notorious serial killer 'Cyanide' Mohan has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here for the murder of a 23-year old woman from Kasaragod district of Kerala in 2006.

That was the 19th of the 20 murder cases slapped against him.

Sixth additional district and sessions court judge Sayeedunnisa  said the life sentence will commence after he serves the sentence of imprisonment in the other cases.

Cyanide Mohan had 20 murder cases registered against him. He is accused of killed several women using cyanide after befriending and raping them.

He has been awarded the death sentence in five cases and life imprisonment in three. Two of the death penalties were later commuted to life imprisonment.

According to the charge sheet in the latest case, Mohan met the woman while she was going to work at a unit of CAMPCO here. After befriending and offering to marry her, on January 3 in 2006, he took her to Mysuru and stayed in a lodge near the bus stand.

Like in all other cases, the next morning, Mohan asked the woman to remove her ornaments. The two went to the KSRTC bus stand where he asked her to consume a pill convincing her that it was a contraceptive. However, it was laced with cyanide.

The woman, who consumed the pill in the washroom, collapsed and was declared brought dead at a hospital.

As in previous cases, Mohan went back to the lodge and left the place along with her ornaments.

He was arrested later from Bantwal in 2009, after which he admitted to killing 20 women.

The judge directed the District Legal Service Authority to take steps to award compensation to the woman's mother under the Karnataka victim compensation scheme.

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