CBI raids leave Congress leaders red-faced

September 17, 2012

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Karwar, September 17: The raids carried out by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths on the offices of mining companies and stevedoring agents in Karwar, Yellapur, and Belekeri ports in Uttara Kannada district on Saturday have put the opposition Congress in the State in a spot.

All these days, the Congress had mounted a scathing attack on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party leaders accusing them of “looting iron ore”.

On Saturday, the CBI sleuths raided the houses of two Congress leaders — Satish Sail, owner of Mallikarjuna Shipping Company in Karwar and Belekeri, and Shivaram Hebbar, former director of Dream Logistic Company, Yellapur. Mr. Shivaram Hebbar has clarified that he is no longer a director of the company and his son Vievek Hebbar is looking after the business.

Congress candidates

Mr. Shivaram Hebbar, who was the Congress candidate in the last Assembly election from Yellapur constituency, lost to V.S. Patil of the BJP. Mr. Sail contested as the Congress candidate from the Karwar Assembly constituency in the byelection in 2010 and lost to Anand Asnotikar of the BJP.

The CBI raided the houses and offices of the owners and directors of 13 companies who had exported half of the illegally mined iron ore (about 25 lakh tonne) from Belekeri between 2009 and 2010.

More FIRs

With the CBI filing five more first information reports (FIRs), the heat is now on a Janata Dal (Secular) leader, a Minister from the district, and a former MLC of the Congress, sources say.

The JD(S) leader, who is a ticket aspirant for the next Assembly election, is said to be the owner of a transport company and had transported lakhs of tonnes of illegally mined iron ore from Bellary. With the Supreme Court specifically asking the CBI to investigate the role of transporters, he is under intense scrutiny, it is said.

The CBI team is likely to raid a Minister belonging to the district as he had been a party to the memorandum of understanding signed with a company on whose office was raided on Saturday. This company had allegedly built a jetty illegally in the Belekeri port the work on which was later stopped by the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission.

Trail of transportation

Although the case relating to the illegal export of iron ore has not been shifted from Karwar court to the CBI by the Supreme Court, the trail of illegal transportation may lead the team to the coastal town, port officials said. Handling agents at the Karwar port had been given the subcontract of transporting iron ore by a company owned by Shubhalata Asnotikar, former MLC, and it was again given on subcontract to the Karwar Port and Dock Workers' Union, of which Ms. Asnotikar is the president, port officials said.

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49 new covid cases take Dakshina Kannada’s tally to 568

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June 27,2020

Mangaluru, Jun 29: As many as 49 fresh covid-19 cases were reported in Dakshina Kannada district in past 24 hours taking the district’s tally to 568.

At the same time 38 persons were also discharged from the hospital after complete recovery from covid 19.

Out of the 49 positive cases, 14 persons had returned from Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar. 17 persons had contracted the disease from patient number 9590. 3 persons are suffering from an influenza-like illness (ILI), and 4 persons are suffering from Severe Acute Respiratory Infection.

The health officials are tracing the contacts of six others. All the 49 persons have been shifted to hospital for treatment. Most of them are said to be asymptomatic.

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Katakana: RSS suspends its programme over COVID-19

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March 14,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 14: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Saturday suspended its proposed Akil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS) meeting scheduled to be held in the outskirts of the city, in the wake of the outbreak of Coronavirus in the state.

'In view of the seriousness of the pandemic COVID-19 and in the light of instructions and advisories thereof issues by the Union and the state governments, the Akil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha meeting scheduled in Bengaluru has been suspended', Sarakaryavah Suresh Joshi tweeted.

All Swayamsevaks should cooperate with the administrations to create awareness among the public and to face this successfully, he said.

It may be recalled that Karnataka State Government had ordered shut down of pubs, malls, theatres, and ban mass gatherings over the Coronavirus scare, on Friday.

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JD(S) to ride on anti-CAA sentiment

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January 24,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 24: The JD(S) is looking to leverage anti-Citizen (Amendment) Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR) sentiment sweeping the country to revive itself and will hold protests in Bengaluru and New Delhi.

The Bengaluru protest is scheduled for Friday. At a meeting of party workers in Bengaluru on Thursday, party patriarch HD Deve Gowda and former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy urged the rank and file to participate in the rally to send out a loud and clear message to the BJP.

"The BJP has set out to make Muslims second-grade citizens. India has 40 crore Muslims, can these communal forces eliminate them all?" Gowda said in his address. "We should have the guts to launch a massive protest at Jantar Mantar. We should be prepared to go to jail in the fight against [Prime Minister] Narendra Modi and [Union home minister] Amit Shah."

Gowda said he will lead the rally in Delhi and urged secular parties to unite to take on the BJP. "It is important that regional parties, which share a secular ideology, unite on a common agenda and fight the BJP. Bihar, Kerala and Odisha have said they will not implement CAA. The sentiment is likely to spread to other states," Gowda said.

Kumaraswamy said not only Muslims but many other communities will also bear the brunt of BJP’s "divisive politics". "This pair of Hakka-Bukka [Modi and Shah] is not targeting Muslims alone," he said. "For them, all communities other than upper caste Hindus are inferior Shudras. They will treat even Lingayats, Vokkaligas and Dalits with the same contempt."

The former CM made a special appeal to Lingayats, who generally back the BJP, to stop supporting the saffron party’s caste-oriented politics. "You had appreciated my farm loan waiver scheme and promised support in the elections. But, the results were contrary to that," he said.

The JD(S) passed three resolutions including one to condemn the Centre for enacting CAA. The others were to protest against the Centre’s indifference to the floods in the state and the failed economic policy of the Centre.

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