Govt preventing police from taking action against Kalladka Bhat'

January 27, 2012

Mangalore, January 27: Accusing the BJP-led state government of pressurizing the police department not to take any action against anti-social elements, Congress workers in the city on Friday staged a protest in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner, here.

Speaking on the occasion KPCC Secretary Ivan D'Souza lamented that even though criminal cases were registered against RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat and his accomplices for their apparent bid to spread violence in the coastal district, no action was taken against them so far.

A venomous speech delivered by Mr Bhat at a Hindu Samajotsava recently, threatening to kill Muslim youth, had sparked communal tensions in Uppinagady town and its adjacent areas in Puttur taluk. Police had registered cases under IPC section 153A and 295 A for promoting enmities between communities and causing national disintegration against Bhat the following day.

“Though the police were ready to take necessary actions against the culprits and communal goons, the State government has been exerting pressure on the former and preventing them from impartial policing”, Mr D'Souza said.

Coming down heavily on the ruling party, he said that instead of taking action against those who spread violence, the elected representatives from BJP had justified the provocative speeches of Kalladka Bhat.

He also said that the recent untoward incidents of Uppinangady and Sullia were part of wider conspiracy of communal forces, backed by the State government, to spoil communal harmony in the region.

Local leaders of Congress Suresh Ballal, Narendra Kumar, Ibrahim Bawa, Ashok Kumar, Mamata Gatti Shashidar Hegde, Praveen Alva, Farooq, Sudhir TK, Karunakar Shetty, Suresh Shetty and Suresh Baboo took part in the protest among others.

A memorandum seeking the stringent legal action against Kalladka Bhat and his accomplices, was also forwarded to Chief Minister D V Sadanada Gowda through district administration on the occasion.

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June 7,2020

Mangaluru/Udupi, Jun 7: Coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi have recorded 17 and 13 new coronavirus positive cases between 5 p.m. on June 6 and 5 p.m. on June 7. 

16 among 17 new covid patients in Dakshina Kannada are returnees from Maharashtra, while one returned from Goa recently.

Maharashtra returnees comprise 14 males, including three teenagers t, and two females aged 32 and 41. The Goa returnee is a 32-year-old male.

All of them have all been admitted to the designated COVID hospital in the district.

With this, the total tally of coronavirus cases in Dakshina Kannada has risen to 203, out of which 47 are currently active. As many as 150 patients have recovered and been discharged, and seven have died.

Among the 13 in Udupi, 12 are Maharashtra returnees, while process of contact tracing of one patient, a 30-year-old woman, is going on.

The patients comprise eight males, including a 7-year-old boy, and five females. They have all been admitted to the designated hospital.

This takes the total number of coronavirus cases in Udupi district to 902, out of which 798 are currently active, 103 discharged, and one patient has died.

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March 23,2020

Kasaragod, Mar 23: The district administration on Monday decided to abandon efforts to map out the movement details of the NRI who came from Dubai recently and came into contact with many in North Kerala.

The district has been completely locked down since Monday morning, on the directive of the Central Government. Prohibitory orders have been slapped in the district since Sunday night to restrict socialisation of the people.

As the person now in isolation have allegedly been non-cooperative, the authorities were finding it difficult to sketch out a rote map as his movement and socialisation has been so vast and wide since his arrival here on March 12.

The middle aged and popular NRI who landed at Karipur airpprt on March 11 had been in Calicut till midnight prior to boarding the Maveli Express to make it to his hometown Kasaragod, which is 160 kms away from Calicut. He had come into contact with very many, including two MLAs of the district, prior to getting tested positive and getting isolated in the hospital.

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Hassan, Feb 2: Former prime minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda has said that the controversy over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act should be resolved peacefully through discussion.

Speaking to reporters in Halebeed on Saturday, Gowda said that the Act affects only Muslims but would also prove troublesome for the Hindus. “Opening fire on anti-CAA protesters is the not solution to the issue,” he said.

Deve Gowda said that during his tenure as prime minister a number of problems concerning Muslims were addressed. “But, in the run up to election, Rahul Gandhi described us ‘B’ team of BJP. This led to vote swing,” he added. When his comment was sought on the budget, the former prime minister said that he had not yet read the budget document.

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