Mangaluru: Police steps up security checking of vehicles amidst lockdown across the city
Mangaluru: Amidst the country-wide lockdown, Mangaluru City Police has stepped up the security check up of the vehicles in the city and has installed check-posts at various points in the city.
Check-posts along with barricades have been installed at Ambedkar Circle, Kankanady, Valencia, Clock Tower, Jyothi Circle, State Bank and others and all vehicles except emergency services are being intercepted and inspected. The police personnel are also conveying warning to the people using loud speakers.
Police have also been trying to urge people not to come out of their homes without any emergency and have reportedly lathi charged on people who came out on streets even when there was no emergency.
On Monday morning in Ullal a auto-rickshaw driver was allegedly manhandled by the police when he was reportedly returning home after buying medicine.
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Poll boycott in Chamarajnagar village: Govt officers, voter injured; booth, EVM destroyed by protest
Chamarajnagar: In an untoward incident reported from Indiganatta village under the Mahadeshwara Hills Gram Panchayat administration limits in Hanur taluk, government officials were injured as they attempted at pacifying a group of angry voters who had declared they were boycotting the polls on Friday.
Tahsildar Guruprasad and Taluk Panchayat Chief Officer Umesh and a police inspector were reportedly injured in the clash. In addition, the protesters are learned to have destroyed the polling booth, including the electronic voting machine (EVM), set up in the village. One of the voters who visited the booth was reportedly injured in the head in the incident.
Angry over the non-availability of infrastructure in their village, the voters in Indiganatta declared that they would not exercise their right to franchise on Friday. Guruprasad, Umesh and the police officer, who were informed of the boycott, visited Indiganatta to appease the voters and get them to cast vote. The group of voters, however, directed their anger at the officers, resulting in the trio being injured.
The protesters in Indiganatta were not only adamant about their boycott, but also infuriated by the sight of other voters in the village cast ballot at the polling booth. In anger, they initially had an argument with the voters but later forced their way into the booth and reportedly destroyed the EVM there.
Polling is currently reported to have been stalled in Indiganatta due to the violent incident.
