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BSY govt shunts out top cops seen as close to HDK

TNN
August 2, 2019

Bengaluru, Aug 2: A mere 72 hours after cancelling all nominations to boards, corporations and academies made by the previous government, chief minister BS Yediyurappa on Thursday effected a major reshuffle of IPS officers, shunting out two Vokkaliga officers seen to be close to his predecessor HD Kumaraswamy.

BR Ravikanthe Gowda, who was seen as a trusted lieutenant of Kumaraswamy, has been shunted out of his position as joint commissioner (crime), Bengaluru. Sandeep Pa til, commissioner of police, Mangaluru City, will take his place. Gowda, who is yet to be given a posting, will be confined to the special investigation team probing the IMA scam for now. Yediyurappa has also moved out D Devaraja from his position as DCP (Central), Bengaluru. Devaraja, also seen to be close to Kumaraswamy, has been transferred out without a posting.

Kamal Pant, 1990 batch IPS officer who was previously additional director general, law and order, Bengaluru, has been brought in to head the state intelligence wing. Pant will replace B Dayanand, who has been transferred to Karnataka State Reserve Police. The 1989 batch officer Amar Kumar Pandey, ADGP, Karnataka Human Rights Commission, has been posted as ADGP, law and order, Bengaluru.

Hemant Nimbalkar, who was recently posted to the Anti-Corruption Bureau, has again been transferred, but without a posting. Nimbalkar’s MLA wife Anjali, is believed to be one of those who had been courted by the BJP to join the rebellion in Congress ranks. Chandra Shekhar, inspector general, crime investigation department (CID), will now head the ACB.

Other transfers: A Subramayeswara Rao (commissioner, Mangaluru), Chethan Singh Rathore (deputy commissioner, central division, Bengaluru), Anoop Shetty (SP, Ramanagara), KM Shantharaju (Shivamogga SP) and Hanumantharayappa (Davanagere SP).

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March 26,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 26: Karnataka Primary and Higher Education Minister Suresh Kumar on Thursday clarified that the SSLC examinations have not canceled as being claimed by many. 

Taking to Twitter, he said there was confusion among students and parents as wrong news was published in a some of the news papers and even in social media also.

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February 21,2020

Mangaluru, Feb 21: Police officials including the Mangaluru city Commissioner of Police P S Harsha would be summoned to appear before the panel conducting a magisterial probe into December 19, 2019 firing on anti-CAA protesters in the city which left two people dead.

Notices would be served on 176 police officers and staff to appear for hearing, Udupi deputy commissioner G Jagadeesha, conducting the magisterial probe into the incident said here on Thursday.

He told reporters that officials, including the city police commissioner Harsha, would be summoned to depose on the violence which led to police firing that killed two people.

Mangaluru (North) Assistant Commissioner K U Belliappa, who is the nodal officer for the police department, has given a list of 176 policemen who are ready to adduce evidence in the hearing.

The police officers would be summoned in phases.

The next hearing is on February 25.

He said so far, 203 members of the public have deposed before him on the incident.

Former city Mayor K Ashraf, who is under treatment in hospital, has also provided a written statement.

The remaining members of the public can provide evidence during next hearings, he said.

On December 19, two people were killed in police firing as protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) turned violent here.

The protesters had attempted to besiege the Mangaluru north police station and tried to attack police personnel, following which force was used to disperse them, police had said.

Two people received bullet injuries in the firing and they later succumbed at a hospital, the police had said.

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April 29,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 29: The Karnataka police department has decided not to deploy its personnel aged above 55 as frontliners in Covid-19 related duty.

According to order issued here on Wednesday by Director General of Police Praveen Sood, it was a precautionary measure as the elderly was more susceptible to the risk of infection.

Apart from this, the order also states that any police personnel suffering from diabetes, hypertension, asthma, kidney, liver-related problems and cardiovascular disease must also be kept away from Coronavirus duty. The policemen can be deployed for station duty.

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