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City gears up for Advani Yatra

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October 30, 2011

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Mangalore, October 30: The police have a tough task of maintaining law and order in next 24 hours as the much publicised Jan Chetan Yatra of BJP veteran L K Advani will be rolling into this sensitive coastal city on Monday morning amidst protests and criticism.

On Sunday leaders and workers of Dakshina Kannada district BJP, youth and students wings, were engaged in hectic preparations to welcome the Yatra while the district unit of Youth Congress staged a protest in front of Mangalore City Corporation and vent their anger at scam hit BJP led state government.

The agitating Congress workers, sporting masks of jailed BJP leaders including former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, G Janardhana Reddy, Katta Subramanya Naidu and S N Krishnaiah Setty, raised slogans against the so called anti-corruption rally.

An eerie atmosphere prevailed for more than half an hour when the protesters and the campaign vehicle of Yuva Morcha became face to face, when the formers were getting ready for 'road blockade' after garlanding the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in front of MCC.

The agitators began to intensify their anti-Advani slogans after seeing the saffron vehicle depicting the portrait of former deputy prime minister. However, dozens of policemen intervened and pave the way for Yuva Morcha vehicle to continue its awareness rally.

Grand Preparation

According to district BJP chief Padmanabh Kottari, the BJP workers from every booth level will take part in the public meeting to be held at Nehru Maidan on Monday morning. Various committees have been constituted to look into the preparations for the yathra in the district.

Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Jagadish Shettar, Higher Education Minister Dr V S Acharya, Energy Minister Shobha Karandlaje, BJP State President K S Eshwarappa are expected to take part in the meeting.

The district BJP on Monday launched Janachethana padayathra from Belthangady to Mangalore covering 60 km as part of the Janachethana Yathra. The padayathra commenced after offering pooja at Kuthyaru Sri Somanatheshwara Temple at 6.30 am. Senior advocate Nemiraj Shetty, District-in-Charge Minister Krishna Palemar, MP Nalin Kumar Kateel took part in the flagging off of the padayathra along with hundreds of party workers. The Padayathra reached Mangalore at around 10 pm.

Hundreds of the BJP workers on Monday morning are expected to take out another padayathra from Ladyhill, Mangaladevi and Jyothi Circle to the convention venue. From Mangalore, Advani will travel to Udupi and then later to Murdeshwar, Karwar and Goa.

As part of Advani's yathra, the BJP Yuva Morcha will carry out two-wheeler rally from Mangala Stadium to the Central Maidan on Monday at 9 am. The rally will pass through Lalbagh-PVS Circle-Navbharath Circle-K S Rao Road before reaching the Central Maidan.

Traffic Diversions

Meanwhile, Dakshina Kannada district administration has announced change in traffic flow in account of Yatra on Monday. The curbs on traffic flow will be in force from 6 am until such time that the Jan Chetana Yatra leaves for Udupi, where Advani is scheduled to address a public meeting at Rajangana ground later in the afternoon.

Parking vehicles on either side of the road from Bajpe airport to Circuit House junction has been banned.

No parking will be allowed on either side of the road from Circuit House-KPT Nanthoor-Shivbhagh-Agnes-Horticulture-Balmatta-Ambedkar Circle-Balmatta Road-Hampankatta-UP Mallya Road-A B Shetty Circle.

The parking of vehicles has been banned on AB Shetty Circle-Hampankatta-Light House Hill Road-Dr Ambedkar Circle-Balmatta-Horticulture-KPT-Kuntikana. No vehicles can be parked from Kottara to Mulky on NH 66.

All the vehicles which come from the programme can be parked at Upper Maidan, Old Kent Road, Mangaladevi Road, Post Office Road (one side) and Rosario Road (one side).

The movement of all kinds of vehicles from A B Shetty Circle to Clock Tower junction has been banned from 10:00 am till the conclusion of the programme.

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March 11,2020

Kasaragod, Mar 11: An accused in a POCSO case here has been put in an isolation ward at the Government hospital on Wednesday as he was suspected having symptoms of Covid19.

The accused has been absconding ever since a case under POCSO Act was registered against him a year ago.

However acting on a tip off, the Kasaragod police arrested him at Mangalore Airport recently and was produced before the Court and was remanded to judicial custody.

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May 30,2020

Dubai, May 30: Taking advantage of Vande Bharat Mission, a notorious NRI conman has fled to India through a repatriation flight after duping several businessmen in United Arab Emirates and stealing goods worth nearly six million dirhams.

Yogesh Ashok Yariava, 36, owner of the fraudulent Royal Luck Foodstuff Trading and prime suspect in the audacious scam took a flight to Hyderabad from Abu Dhabi on May 11 with around 170 repatriates.

His mandatory two-week quarantine period would have ended on May 25, but for his 40 odd victims a protracted battle for justice has just begun.

Last Wednesday many of them trooped down to the Indian Consulate office in Dubai in the hope of getting an audience with Consul General Vipul. The following day they went to Bur Dubai police station clutching dud bank cheques.

In a replay of the familiar trading scam, conmen representing Royal Luck Foodstuff approached unsuspecting traders and made bulk purchases against post-dated cheques.

They bought anything they could get their hands on: Facemasks, hand sanisters and medical gloves worth nearly half a million dirhams from Skydent Medical Equipment, Raheeq Laboratories and GSA Star; rice and nuts (Dh393,000) from Al Baraka Foods; tuna, pistachios and saffron (Dh300,725) from Yes Buy General Trading; French fries and mozzarella cheese (Dh229,000) from Mehdu General Trading; frozen Indian beef (Dh207,000) from Al Ahbab General Trading and halwa and tahina (Dh52812) from Emirates Sesame Factory. It’s a long list and it keeps getting longer as more victims come forward.

When their post-dated cheques started bouncing, the traders rushed to Royal Luck’s Opal Tower office in Business Bay. But it was too late. They had shut down and all their 18 staffers had disappeared. Visits to their warehouses also drew a blank.

“Calls made to the company’s sweet-talking purchase managers who visited us days earlier carrying fancy business cards remained unanswered,” said Chandrasekaran Ganesan of Ajman-based Skydent Medical Equipment which supplied protective face masks worth Dh175,875.

Another business owner, Anand Asar said he visited Royal Luck’s office after his cheque of Dh79,552 returned marked insufficient funds. “The security guard at the building told us their staff was last seen on May 17,” said Asar who has since lodged a police complaint.

“I am devastated. I don’t know how I will recover my losses,” said another trader.

Victims reckon the ill-gotten goods have been sold to third parties at dirt cheap prices.

“They have got millions of dirhams worth of goods against worthless pieces of paper. The scammers would rack up huge profits even if they sell our stuff for one tenth their price,” said another trader who pegged his losses at Dh200,000.

The scam comes close on the heels a Dh4 million fruit loot in which 810 tonnes of fruits shipped by Indian exporters to OPC Foodstuff Trading in Deira, Dubai were similarly stolen last month.

Legal adviser Salam Pappinisseri from Sharjah based United Advocates that represents five firms which have collectively lost over Dh550,000 said they are weighing legal action against the prime suspect Yogesh Ashok Variava in both India and the UAE.

“Yogesh, originally from Mumbai, absconded from the UAE with large amounts of money on an emergency evacuation flight. It’s strange that the fraudster got a seat in the flight which was meant to bring stranded Indian citizens who had registered with the Indian embassy and consulate requesting repatriation on urgent grounds,” said Pappinisseri.

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July 29,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 29: A day after Congress staged a nationwide 'Save Democracy' protest, Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy slammed Congress for "dividing" the political parties and "buying MLAs" and questioned their "democratic behaviour" to lure Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLAs who supported them.

Kumaraswamy, in a media statement, said, "Is it a democratic behaviour to lure MLAs of other parties through political shenanigans and later merging with them?"

"Congress is an expert in dividing political parties and purchase of MLAs," said Kumaraswamy adding, "If you are dividing the like-minded party MLAs through deceit, who would support you?"

He alleged that the term "horse trade" in politics came to be used because of Congress.

Congress had tied to divide the Janata Dal (Secular) in 2004. To this, he added, "To avoid the party being hijacked by the Congress, I had to oust the Congress-JD(S) coalition government through a political coup."

Kumaraswamy further accused, "Haven't the Congress who is making a big noise about the purchase of MLAs divided the JD(S) in the past? Is it not a fact that for the sake of one Rajya Sabha seat, the Congress government in Karnataka purchased eight JD(S) MLAs?"

Both -- Congress and BJP -- are "criminals" in purchase matter, he added.

Rajasthan Congress is in turmoil after simmering differences between Sachin Pilot and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot came out in the open. Pilot was removed as the Deputy Chief Minister and the state unit chief of Congress.

The Congress has accused the BJP of indulging in horse-trading to bring down the Gehlot government. The BJP has rejected the allegations.

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