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“Palemar is innocent,”: ex-minister's supporters hold public meeting in Surathkal

February 13, 2012

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Mangalore, February 13: Supporters of the former minister and Mangalore north MLA Krishna J. Palemar rallied behind the beleaguered leader, who relinquished his ministerial position following his alleged involvement in porngate.

At a meeting held in the central maidan of Suratkal under the banner of “Krishna Palemar Abhimanigala Sangha” speakers after speakers defended the former Minister and insisted that he was innocent.

Mayor Praveen, former mayors Shankar Bhat, Ganesh Hosabettu, Rajani Dugganna, corporators Tilak Raj, Sumitra Madhukiran, Santhosh, Sharath, Bhaskar Chandra Shetty, Surekha, Shakuntala, Mahabala Poojary, Aziz Baikampady, businessman P.M.A Razak, Vishwanath Shetty were the prominent participants.

Corporators Revathi, Yasavantha Meenakaliya, Shanta R. Suratkal block BJP president Sharatchandra Shetty and Satyajit Suratkal were conspicuously absent.

Palemar has contributed immensely for the development of the district. The allegations leveled against him of watching a blue film inside the Assembly is completely baseless. He has come up in life the hard way. He responded to the problems of the disadvantaged sections of the society. He will come clean of all the allegations on February 13, the speakers said.

Earlier, speaking at a press meet at Suraj Hotel, Shankar Bhat claimed that Mr. Palemar was not tech savvy and did not know how to operate mobile phone. Even when we call him, it is his secretary who attends the call. We were in Gujrat when the scandal broke and initially his name did not figure in the scandal. But his name was dragged due to political pressure, Mr. Bhat said.

However, he did not give a proper answer when asked about their strategy in the event of Mr. Palemar being disqualified from the Assembly. He also answered in the negative when asked if the corporators would put in their papers to express their moral support to the beleaguered leader.

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Mangaluru, May 8: Twenty-two students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV), Mudipu on the outskirts of Mangalur city, stranded in Uttara Pradesh due to lock-down reached the campus on Friday morning.

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Bengaluru, June 11: Amulya Leona, a college student, who was charged with sedition for raising "Pakistan zindabad" slogans in Bengaluru, has finally been granted bail. 

The court had denied her bail yesterday, saying she might abscond. But her lawyers had been pursuing another way of getting her out of jail where she has spent nearly four months.

Ms Leona's advocate, Prasanna R, said that the delay of the state in submitting a chargesheet in the case beyond the stipulated time meant she was eligible for "default bail".

"The default bail application was moved before the magistrate under whose jurisdiction the alleged crime was committed. The chargesheet has not been submitted by the state within 90 days. So default bail has been granted. We had moved the default bail plea on May 26 and again on May 29 when the court told us the earlier mail IDs had been disabled. A physical application was filed on June 2. The state filed the chargesheet on June 3," the lawyer said.

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