Hanur temple incident: Siddaramaiah meets victims at hospital
“Rs 1 lakh from KPCC to each family of victims”
Bengaluru, Dec 15: Former chief minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday met the affected people in the ‘prasad’ poisoning incident at Hanur temple, who were undergoing treatment in various hospitals including KR Hospital in the city and enquired their health condition.
He directed the deputy commissioner and the district minister to admit the affected people to private hospitals if there were no facilities to treat them in government hospitals. He also spoke to DGP Neelamani N Raju over phone on the incident and conducting CID investigation into the tragedy. He said that the state government has announced Rs 5 lakh compensation to each family of the deceased and KPCC has announced Rs 1 lakh each. He also consoled the family members of the victims.
KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao, Hajj and Wakf Minister BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan, District Minister Puttaranga Shetty, MP R Druvanarayan, MLA Narendra, former MLAs Manjunath and Somashekar and others accompanied Siddaramaiah.
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Assam: 20 illegal immigrants pushed back to Bangladesh
Guwahati (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said 20 foreign nationals were apprehended in the state and pushed back to Bangladesh.
"Rude people don't understand soft language... We continuously remind ourselves of this prophetic line when we expel infiltrators from Assam who don't leave themselves. For instance, these 20 illegal Bangladeshis who were PUSHED BACK last night," Sarma said in a post on X.
He, however, did not share details pertaining to the location where they were nabbed or their nationality.
"Assam will fight, Pushbacks WILL CONTINUE," Sarma asserted.
Sribhumi, Cachar, Dhubri and South Salmara-Mankachar districts in Assam share 267.5 km of the international border with Bangladesh.
There is an Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Sutarkandi in Sribhumi. The northeast has a total of three ICPs along the India-Bangladesh border, the other two being at Dawki in Meghalaya and Akhaura in Tripura.
Another ICP in the region is at Darranga in Assam along the India-Bhutan border.
The Assam Police had earlier said that the force and the BSF would do everything possible to prevent any attempt by non-Indians to enter the country from Bangladesh, as per law, following a political turmoil in the neighbouring nation in 2024.
However, all Indian passport holders have been allowed to return from trouble-hit Bangladesh through the entry point in the state.
