Karnataka, Bengaluru News Live Updates: The state government will provide Y-category security to three judges of the Karnataka High Court, including Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, who recently upheld the ban on hijab in the state’s educational institutions, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said Sunday.
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Bommai’s comments came as the police registered a case after a video of a person threatening to murder Karnataka High Court Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and others surfaced on social media in the wake of the recent judgement of the Court upholding the ban on hijab in educational institutions.
Meanwhile, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday said inclusion of the Bhagavad Gita in school curriculum was being considered as part of moral education. In other news, one of the daughters of Kannada scholar M M Kalburgi, who was 77 when shot dead at the door of his house in Dharwad on August 30, 2015, identified the killers of her father during an emotional deposition in a Dharwad court on March 17. Read less
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Mangaluru City Police has extended Section 144 till March 31. The section was imposed over Hijab verdict and saffron shawl issue in the coastal districts from March 14 to March 19, which has been extended.
Karnataka Law and Parliamentary affairs Minister JC Madhuswamy Sunday said that the government would not conduct re-examination for students who have remained absent to college over the HC's hijab issue. "We will conduct examinations for those students who skipped exams before Karnataka High Court verdict but will not allow those who have skipped the exams after court verdict. I have already spoken the opposition leaders on the same," he said.
Based on specific intelligence, officials in the Customs Intelligence Unit (CIU), in Bengaluru Airport and Air Cargo Commissionerate, intercepted a shipment Sunday in the International Courier Terminal which was being exported to Malaysia. The goods were declared as new bronze antique finish idol in the export documents.
The idol was examined and certified by the authorized nominee of the Director General, Archaeological Survey of India and assisted by a committee of experts, as an antique, as per Section 24 of the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972. The exporter was arrested and remanded to judicial custody. Further investigation is in progress.
The Campus Front of India (CFI) has been in the forefront of the protests over the right of Muslim girls to wear the hijab in Karnataka’s educational institutions. A law graduate who has been associated with the CFI since its inception, Athavulla Punjalkatte has been the head of the organisation’s state unit for a year. He says the CFI is not happy with the selective probe of the police and adds that they have approached the Supreme Court to get justice in the hijab controversy. Kiran Parashar reports
The state government will provide Y-category security to three judges of the Karnataka High Court, including Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, who recently upheld the ban on hijab in the state’s educational institutions, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said Sunday.
Bommai’s statement comes in the wake of the emergence of a video in which a man is seen issuing threats against the three judges. “This is one of the alarming signs in democracy and we should ensure that these kinds of anti-national forces don’t grow. Law and order are in place in the country because of the judiciary,” the chief minister said outside his residence on Sunday. Read more
Bengaluru City police Sunday arrested 29-year-old Shakil Ahmed from the city for allegedly smuggling revolvers and guns from Maharashtra. The police have recovered two pistols and four live bullets from the accused. Shakil had cases pending against him for smuggling weapons, the police added.
Shakil was arrested in 2019 by the Central Crime Branch (CCB). The police said that Shakil used to smuggle weapons from Amravati in Maharashtra and was selling it at a higher cost in Bengaluru. Besides weapon smuggling, He works as a real estate broker, the police said.
The Regional Meteorological Department (RMC) Bangalore has predicted generally cloudy sky with a slight chance of rain in Karnataka today. Mist is likely during early morning hours in some areas and surface winds likely to be strong and gusty at times. Maximum and Minimum temperatures very likely to be around 34 and 21 degrees Celsius respectively.
For 48 hrs.: Generally cloudy sky. Rain likely. Mist likely during early morning hours in some areas. Surface winds likely to be strong and gusty at times. Maximum and Minimum temperatures very likely to be around 34 and 21 degrees Celsius respectively.
In 2017, the work to de-silt and clean the decades old seven open wells, which were lying unused and neglected at Cubbon Park, was taken up. These wells today provide over a lakh litre of water on a daily basis to the park. Subsequently, 73 rainwater recharge wells with an average depth of 15 feet were dug up to ensure that the open wells never run out of water. The India Cares Foundation along with voluntary citizens network Friends of Lakes and Bengaluru based Biome Environmental Trust worked on the project. The team had spent three years working on the project.
The co-founder of the Friends of Lakes, Ram Prasad, said, “The India Cares Foundation wanted to clean the ponds in the park and while working on the strategy, we came across seven wells that were lying defunct for several years. The restoration of these wells has also made us understand that it could be used as a flood mitigation strategy as well.” Aksheev Thakur writes
Karnataka on Saturday registered 173 fresh coronavirus cases and two virus-related fatalities thereby taking the total caseload in the state to 39,44,605 and death toll to 40,035, respectively. As many as 153 patients got discharged on the day and the number of recoveries across the state has now reached 39,02,497, according to a health bulletin.
Of the new cases, 138 were from Bengaluru Urban that also recorded 110 recoveries and one death, the bulletin said. The other death was reported from Ballari district. The number of active cases across the state now stood at 2,031.
While the test positivity rate (TPR) for the day was 0.56 per cent, the case fatality rate was 1.15 per cent. After Bengaluru Urban, Chitradurga recorded the highest number of cases with eight followed by Belagavi and Mysuru (five), Kolar (three) with the other districts reporting the remaining cases. (PTI)
One of the daughters of Kannada scholar M M Kalburgi, who was 77 when shot dead at the door of his house in Dharwad on August 30, 2015, identified the killers of her father during an emotional deposition in a Dharwad court on March 17. Kalburgi’s daughter Roopadarshi K, 49, broke down in the court after identifying a man, Ganesh Miskin, now 29, as the one who shot her father. She also identified Praveen Chatur, now 29, as the man who was waiting for Ganesh on a motorcycle near the house.
Ganesh — linked to a right-wing extremist Hindutva outfit created by radical members of groups like the Sanatan Sanstha and its affiliate the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti — is incidentally also accused of riding the killer of journalist Gauri Lankesh, 55, in Bengaluru on September 5, 2017. Chatur is also associated with a fringe right-wing group and is accused in cases of violence during the screening of film Padmavat in 2018. Read more
The Karnataka government has approved the Rs 134-crore Devatkal lift irrigation project, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Saturday. He said that the Mekedatu project, among others, would also be implemented. The chief minister, in his address after launching a slew of development works at Devatkal village in Yadagiri district’s Surapur taluk, also announced plans for irrigation projects benefiting Yadagiri and Vijayapura districts. Irrigation facilities will be provided for 44,000 acres in Yadagiri through Narayanapura, Bunala and other projects, he said, thanking MLA Raju Gowda for his efforts. Read more
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday said inclusion of Bhagavad Gita in school curriculum was being considered as part of moral education. He was speaking in Devatkal Helipad in Surapur taluk and said a decision in this regard would be taken after discussions with Education Minister BC Nagesh. BJP-ruled Gujarat on Thursday had announced that the Bhagavad Gita would be part of the school syllabus for Classes 6 to 12 across the state from the academic year 2022-23.
The police have registered a case after a video of a person threatening to murder Karnataka High Court Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and others surfaced on social media in the wake of the recent judgement of the Court upholding the ban on hijab in educational institutions. A complaint in this regard was filed by advocate Umapathi S with the registrar general of Karnataka High Court on Saturday.
The complainant said that he received a video on WhatsApp, wherein a person could be seen publicly threatening Chief Justice Awasthi by referring to the alleged murder of a Jharkhand judge, who was killed while he was taking a morning walk. The complainant said, “The speaker also makes a similar threat to the Chief Justice of Karnataka by stating that people know where he goes for a walk. Further, he makes a reference to… his visit to Udupi Mutt with family members… He also talks about the court judgement in very vulgar language.”
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