'Training camp for terrorists who assassinated M M Kalburgi was held in Dakshina Kannada'

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July 8, 2019

Newsroom, Jul 8: The final ‘training camp’ for the terrorists who assassinated rationalist thinker Prof M M Kalburgi around four years ago was organised in Dakshina Kannada district, according to the Special Investigation Team of the Karnataka police. 

According to SIT sources, key suspect Praveen Prakash Chatur, who was arrested on May 31, took the police to a rubber plantation at Dharamsthala in the coastal district, last month and said that is where he was trained for the murder.

Chatur drove the motorcycle that took the shooter, Ganesh Miskin, to Kalburgi’s home on August 30, 2015.

The owner of the rubber plantation – businessman K. Ananth Kamath – is a known associate of the extremist Hindu group Sanatan Sanstha and its affiliate Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS). He is even mentioned on the HJS website, as a “devout Hindu”.

When contacted Kamath, he said he had “no idea” about his estate being used for such training. “If I knew I would not allow it,” he said.

Kamath’s name has also come up in the investigation into the killing of Bangalore-based journalist Gauri Lankesh. Amit Degwekar, a Sanstha member arrested in the case, mention Kamath as being involved in the planning activities.

In the Lankesh case as well, several suspects have talked about attending a training camp at a rubber plantation in the Dharamsthala region. Chatur was reportedly taken the the plantation as the police hoped to find bullets or cartridges there, but failed to do so.

The Sanatan Sanstha and HJS have been linked to the murders of Kalburgi, Lankesh, Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare. The chargesheet in the Lankesh assassination refers to the killing as an “organised crime” by the Sanatan Sanstha. In his confession, Dabholkar’s shooter said a right-wing group had trained him in shooting, bomb-making and ideology in the days before the assassination.

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Mangalorean
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Tuesday, 9 Jul 2019

In South Kanara particular areas are fully enaged with such anctvities. Please  send Ananth Kamath for Narcotic

test with live telecast.  Let the whole nation to know what is right and wrong with these Desh Drohis.

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March 29,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 29: Twenty more people were

detected with coronavirus in Kerala on Saturday, taking the total number of those undergoing treatment for the deadly infection to 181, Health Minister K K Shailaja said.

While Kannur reported eight cases, Kasaragod 7, Thiruvananthapuram, Ernkulam, Thrissur, Palakad and Malappuram reported one case each, Shailaja said in a statement here.

Of the 20 people, 18 had come from abroad and two others had been infected through contact.

The man found positive here was in the isolation ICU of the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College hospital, while one positive case from Ernakulam was a health worker.

The samples of four persons who were under treatment at Pathnamthitta were found negative.

At least, 1,41,211 people are under observation across the state, the Minister addd.

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July 25,2020

Chennai, July 25: A widow living alone in her apartment in Chennai city suburbs has filed a police complaint against ABVP national president Dr Subbiah Shanmugam, accusing him of harassment, including urinating and throwing used surgical masks at her doorstep.

Shockingly, no action has been taken so far by the police, even though the complaint against Dr Shanmugam, who is in government service, was filed on July 11 at the Adambakkam Police Station here by the widow’s relative Balaji Vijayaraghavan. 

Dr Shanmugam and the 62-year-old widow were living in the same apartment complex in Nanganallur and an argument broke between them over a parking slot. “He wanted to use our parking lot. We agreed but demanded a nominal charge for using it. He was outraged by our demand and even broke our signboard at the parking lot,” Vijayaraghavan wrote in his complaint.

He also alleged that Dr Shanmugam began harassing her by throwing “pieces of chicken” outside her apartment despite knowing she is a vegetarian. Vijayaraghavan also alleged in his two-page written complaint that the ABVP National President had urinated outside the woman’s apartment gate and had been throwing garbage and used masks at her gate.

The 62-year-old woman has been living alone in her apartment for the last year following her husband’s death. In his complaint, Vijayaraghavan also said the family was “concerned about her safety”, while asking police to take action against Dr Shanmugam, who he says, “has a bad track record in maintaining rapport with neighbours.”

CCTV footage corroborates with the allegations of urinating outside the residence of the widow. However, the ABVP claimed the incident as a “malicious and derogatory propaganda” by the Congress’ student wing of NSUI.

Also Read: Finally FIR registered against ABVP national president for allegedly harassing widow

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April 22,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 22: A staff working at the office of Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner was sent to quarantine as a precautionary measure here in the city on Wednesday.

The staff reportedly is a distant relative of a woman (native of Bantwal) who recently died due to killer Corona Virus in Wenlock Hospital, prompting the DC office to send the staff for 14-day quarantine.

According to the reports the staff had met the Doctor who was treating the woman and had inquired about her health condition on April 18.

However the staff did not meet the woman when she was in hospital as she was being treated in the ICU.

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