Statewide boycott of courts: 5,000 lawyers stay away from work in DK

March 5, 2012

Mangalore, March 5: Legal services across Karnataka including in the coastal city of Mangalore were affected on Monday as lawyers responded positively to the boycott call given by the Advocates Association of Bangalore.

The call for boycott of courts across state was given to protest alleged “police excesses” against some of its members at the civil court complex in Bangalore last week. An emergency meeting of AAB, convened to discuss the violent incidents and police action on Friday and also media reports against lawyers, blamed police “failure” for the ugly events that unfolded.

As part of a slew of counter-attack measures adopted by the advocates following the unsavoury attacks on the media and the police nearly 5,000-odd lawyers stayed away from court work in Dakshina Kannada district.

AAB president KN Subba Reddy said had the police initiated timely action, the attacks would not have occurred.

The state media has rejected the judicial probe into the attack as an "eyewash" and demanded that guilty advocates be brought to book immediately.

He said the meeting passed a resolution seeking the transfer of DGP and IGP Shankar Bidari and Bangalore city police commissioner BG Jyoti Prakash Mirji from their posts.

“We have also decided not to take up cases of media houses as they have portrayed lawyers badly”, Reddy said.

Reddy said the association suspected an outside hand in the attack on media persons and claimed he had information that some 100 black coats were purchased from the association by unidentified persons.

Police have arrested four advocates ans are looking for other suspects. A senior police officer, refusing to be identified, said the police were questioning several advocates but no fresh arrests were made.

The four arrested lawyers were remanded to judicial custody till 16 March by the sixth additional chief metropolitan magistrate Churi Khan on late Saturday night.

The arrests came after the media in the state rejected the judicial probe into the attack as an “eyewash” and demanded that guilty advocates be brought to book immediately.

Sixty-five persons, including 52 police personnel, were injured when lawyers went on a rampage protesting media presence at the hearing of former minister and mining baron Janardhan Reddy in a mining case in the civil court complex on Friday.

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Udupi District public library digitizes books in the wake of corona lockdown

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May 2,2020

Udupi, May 2: During the lockdown period the Department of Public Library digitised more books to the Karnataka Digital Public Library (KDPL).

According to the data released by the KDPL issued here on Saturday , as on April 29, 89,239 people from the State have already registered for the digital library. From these 1,807 are from Dakshina Kannada district and 605 from the Udupi district.

The digital library already has a repository of 35,500 e-books, 4,800 videos, 59,980 e-journals and 1,112 items for children.

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Mango farmers in Karnataka stare at losses amid corona lockdown

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May 10,2020

Gadag, May 9: It is the month of April, and the season of mangoes is very much here. However, the mango farmers of Gadag are suffering huge losses amid the coronavirus lockdown due to the absence of transportation facilities along with several other issues that have been impacting their business adversely.

Speaking to media persons, Vishwanath Odugowdar, a mango farmer said, "Due to transportation problems we are not being able to export mangoes to different countries. We are trying to sell them in nearby markets."

"We are not in a situation to pack, transport and export the mangoes to different countries as we did earlier especially
when it comes to Alphonso mangoes which is one of the most loved varieties. So, we are packing mangoes at our place. Somehow this year we have got very good quality of mangoes," he added.

Farmers here are incurring huge losses as mandis and markets across the country are shut while the transport of Alphonso mangoes has also come to a halt owing to the lockdown.

The small and medium scale farmers in places like Gadag, Dharwad, Bagalkote in north Karnataka have started packing the mangoes themselves in their farms in a bid to sell the fruit themselves.

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Netizens target BJP after video of Sangh Parivar ‘man’ in burqa goes viral

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June 16,2020

Vijayapura, June 16: Even as a video of a man wearing a burqa who is being thrashed by locals is going viral on social media, netizens targeted Bharatiya Janata Party for their activist resorting to heinous acts.

The man who was caught in burqa has been identified as Siddu Paragond, an activist of Snagh Parivar hailing from Sindgi town in Karnataka’s Vijayapura district.

The bizarre incident took place in Sindgi on June 11 outside a bank.

“While people including women were standing in a queue outside the bank, the person in burqa was acting in a suspicious manner. The person was trying to get too close to women which was making them feel awkward,” local residents said.

“Getting suspicious, some locals tried to interact and their suspicion rose with the strange behaviour of the person. Suddenly some men took the person away from the bank and checked only to find that it was a man in burqa. The men thrashed him and handed him over to police,” the sources said.

Confirming this, Superintendent of Police Anupam Agrawal said that the Siddu Paragond has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody. He, however, made it clear that no suspicious objects were found on Siddu. “We are trying to find out the motive for his act,” the SP said.

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