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Religious excursion for vote: 50 women on tour to Dharmasthala sent back home

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May 9, 2018

Chikkamagaluru, May 9: Coastaldigest.com last month had carried a report on political parties wooing voters by arranging them religious excursions ahead of polls. Yesterday officials in Chikkamagaluru district found out such a case and sent the “political pilgrims” back home.

M K Srirangaiah, the Deputy Commissioner of Chikkamagaluru told media persons that a political party had arranged free pilgrimage for woman from Sakharayapattana in private buses to Dharmasthala.

The district authorities had received a complaint that the women were taken to Dharmasthala, to vote for a party. The flying squad rushed to the spot and found that around 50 women were on their way to Dharmasthala in two buses. They were sent home.

Later, the women had been to KSRTC bus stand. The flying squad led by M V Tusharamani rushed to the spot and asked them to return by warning them of filing a case.

“A few had availed individual ticket. However, the ticket for 30 members were booked together,” said the DC.

Srirangaiah said that he has asked the officials to give a report on the incident. Based on the report, action will be taken. It is suspected that these women were lured on the pretext of taking them to Dharmasthala, by a party.

Also Read: Booze, chicken and religious excursion: How wannabe MLAs are wooing voters in Karnataka

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February 4,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 4: The CBI has booked Karnataka cadre senior IPS officers Hemant Nimbalkar and Ajay Hilori along with eight others in connection with Rs 4,000-crore I-Monetary Advisory (IMA) scam in which gullible investors were allegedly cheated in the name of Islamic banking, officials said on Tuesday.

The move came after the CBI received an approval from the Karnataka government to proceed with investigation into alleged role of 1998-batch IPS officer Nimbalkar and 2008-batch IPS officer Hilori, they said.

Along with the two officers, the agency has also named the company IMA, its founder Mansoor Khan and others in the case.

The CBI had approached the state government seeking permission to proceed against the two officers who are in senior positions in the Karnataka Police and allegedly helped IMA founder Masoor Khan, they said.

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June 5,2020

New Delhi, Jun 5: Congress has named Mallikarjun Kharge as its candidate for ensuing biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka.

Party interim president Sonia Gandhi approved Kharge's candidature on Friday, according to a Congress release by general secretary Mukul Wasnik.

The elections to fill the pending 18 Rajya Sabha seats from seven states will be held on June 19.

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January 1,2020

Belgaum, Jan 1: Police detained a group of around eight people who were allegedly trying to hoist 'Uttara Karnataka flag' in Hire Bagewadi area here on Wednesday.

This comes amid tensions between Karnataka and neighbouring Maharashtra over the border issue with protests on both sides, which have also led to the cancellation of bus services between the two states.

Protesters in Belagavi burnt an effigy of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, following which Shiv Sena workers had launched a protest near the Kolhapur bus stand on Sunday, and burnt an effigy of Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa.

The long-standing border dispute between the two states over is pending before the Supreme Court for several years.

On December 7, Thackeray had chaired a high-level meeting over the border dispute between two states. It was decided in the meeting that attempts will be made to get fast track hearing in Supreme Court on the issue.

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