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Udupi man, arrested in Kuwait for carrying banned medicine, released after 7 months

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January 16, 2019

Udupi, Jan 16: Almost seven months after he was arrested by the Kuwait police on charge of carrying banned medicine, S hankara Poojary, a 40-year-old expatriate worker hailing from Basroor in Kundapur of Udupi district, has finally been released.

Mr. Poojary had migrated to Kuwait in May 2014 to work with a company called Agricultural Food Products Company, K.S.C. He would visit once in two years.

He last came home on April 25, 2018 and stayed for two months. On June 13, he caught a flight from Mumbai to Kuwait. After the immigration clearance, he was allowed to go out of the airport. When he was about to reach his residence, he was arrested by the Kuwait police. Initially, he was detained at the airport before being shifted to Silaibia public jail, where he has remained imprisoned.

On June 14, Mr. Poojary’s wife, Jyoti Poojary, received a call from the jail authorities in Kuwait informing her that her husband had been arrested. On June 28, an official of the Indian embassy in Kuwait informed her that she should arrange for legal assistance for his release. But she was clueless about Mr. Poojary’s offence.

On July 13, Mr. Poojary called his wife from Kuwait and informed her that a packet of medicines given to him by a person named Mubarak from Udupi was the reason for his arrest. Mr. Mubarak had given the packet for delivery to his mother-in-law, Thasleem Fathima, residing in Kuwait, for her personal use. After his arrest, Mr. Poojary called Ms. Fathima thrice and requested help, but not much appeared to have been done.

The Udupi district administration and Karnataka Rakshana Vedike took up his case and convinced Kuwait police that he is innocent.

Also Read: Family of Udupi man languishing in Kuwait jail awaits MEA’s intervention

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sameer
 - 
Wednesday, 16 Jan 2019

This  guy is a farud and nothing else ,mubarak and tasleema name was dragged just to show that this guy is clean,infact he was carry some unknow madecine (abortion medicene whic is banned in kuwait )in large numbers .he has  second wife in kuwait and he was doing some kind of  illegal medice business in kuwait .

Abdullah
 - 
Wednesday, 16 Jan 2019

Thanks to Almight God for this.  Culprit Mubarak should be arrested and forced to compensate Mr. Hankara Poojary for the loss and dipression faced.    People like Mubarak should be considered as offenders and penalised heavily.   I am sorry for the fate faced by Mr. Hankara and pray for his better future.   Mubarak did a great mistake and innocent Mr. Hankara paid for it.   this is really unfortunate and unacceptable.   Mubaraka should b e arrested and forced to compensate Mr. Hankara.   We are with Mr. Hankara.  

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February 22,2020

Kalaburagi, Feb 22: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Waris Pathan was booked for his alleged remark against the Hindu community in his speech during an anti-CAA rally held here recently, police sources said on Saturday.

According to police sources, the FIR was registered against the AIMIM leader, following a complaint lodged by a woman advocate on Friday evening.

Taking strongly about the incident, the Karnataka Home minister Basavaraj Bommai had directed the Kalaburagi city police commissioner to submit a report on the incident.

It may be recalled that the AIMIM leader, in his speech at a rally held in the city on February 15 had said that if all the 15 crore minority populations in the country stand united they could take on 100 crore Hindu population.

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January 10,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 10: The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST), which met with officials of the Social Welfare Department Thursday, has urged the state government to increase the reservation provided to the ST community.

The Commission's suggestion comes even as a committee headed by Justice Nagamohan Das is currently studying a demand for increase of reservation for the community from the existing 3% to 7.5%.

Addressing mediapersons on Thursday, Commission Chairperson Nand Kumar Sai, said the Commission had discussed the issue with the Social Welfare Department, Karnataka, asking officials to expedite the process.

In response to this suggestion, Social Welfare Department Principal Secretary G Kumar Naik said the government would take a call based on the Nagamohan Das Committee's report.

A meeting was held between members of the National ST Commission and the Social Welfare Department Thursday with regard to various projects taken up by the department.

In June last year, the then Kumaraswamy-led coalition government constituted the Justice Nagamohan Das Committee, after protests from members of the Valmiki community for an increase in reservation to 7.5%. At present, Karnataka provides 15% reservation for SCs, 3% for STs and 32% for other backward classes (OBC).

The national commission also urged the state government to ensure permanent faculty in all the 824 residential institutions run by the department. At present, as much as 50% of the faculty in these institutions have been hired on a contractual basis. "We have assured that the recruitment will be done in a short time," Naik told mediapersons.

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