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District Police Complaints Authority given more power

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February 15, 2016

Mangaluru, Feb 15: The Karnataka government has now given more power to District Police Complaints Authority (DPCA) by appointing the chiefs of city police commissionerates in the state as its member secretaries.

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Accordingly, M Chandra Sekhar, police commissioner of Mangaluru will be the member secretary for Dakshina Kannada Authority. The regional commissioner, Mysuru will be the chairperson of the authority as per government order dated February 4, 2016.

The DPCA was set up following a government order dated October 20, 2014 after increasing complaints of police atrocities.

The authority is empowered to inquire into custodial deaths, grievous injuries, rape and such other serious offences committed under officers of the rank of deputy superintendents/ assistant commissioners of police and below them.

It also has the powers to inquire into misbehaviour and misuse of power by such officials. Complaints against officers above the rank of DySP/ ACP would have to be submitted to the State Police Complaints Authority.

Dakshina Kannada Authority

The Dakshina Kannada Authority may be contacted at the office of the Commissioner of Police, Mangaluru City, Mangaluru 575001, phone 0824-2220801.

The State authority may be contacted at Room No. 36, Ground Floor, Vikasa Soudha, Bengaluru 560001, phone 080 22386063, 22034220, said an official release here.

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abdul
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Monday, 15 Feb 2016

Actually in any Government office not to keep any religion photo or Status in govt office (As per indian Constituency

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June 7,2020

Mangaluru/Udupi, Jun 7: Coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi have recorded 17 and 13 new coronavirus positive cases between 5 p.m. on June 6 and 5 p.m. on June 7. 

16 among 17 new covid patients in Dakshina Kannada are returnees from Maharashtra, while one returned from Goa recently.

Maharashtra returnees comprise 14 males, including three teenagers t, and two females aged 32 and 41. The Goa returnee is a 32-year-old male.

All of them have all been admitted to the designated COVID hospital in the district.

With this, the total tally of coronavirus cases in Dakshina Kannada has risen to 203, out of which 47 are currently active. As many as 150 patients have recovered and been discharged, and seven have died.

Among the 13 in Udupi, 12 are Maharashtra returnees, while process of contact tracing of one patient, a 30-year-old woman, is going on.

The patients comprise eight males, including a 7-year-old boy, and five females. They have all been admitted to the designated hospital.

This takes the total number of coronavirus cases in Udupi district to 902, out of which 798 are currently active, 103 discharged, and one patient has died.

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April 1,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 1: Karnataka government along with BBMP has asked project contractors, builders and developers in the city not to send their labourers to their native place and instead provide them with amenities like food and shelter in this lockdown period.

It was also warned with legal action would be taken against them if they violating the instructions from the government .

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January 28,2020

Hubballi, Jan 28: Charting that the Bharatiya Janata party’s Central leaders have not given a free-hand to the Chief minister B S Yediyurappa on the issue of expansion of Cabinet, former Chief minister and the Congress leader Siddaramaiah had opined that 'it has hampered the State’s development'.

Speaking to newsmen here on Tuesday, the Congress leader, alleged that 'by not giving permission to Yediyurappa to expand his ministry, it was evident that there is no any internal democracy in the Saffron Party'.

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