Bantwal: Police teams led by SP combing near Farangipet to find missing youngster Diganth
Bantwal: The Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Yateesh N-led police team started combing Farangipet and the nearby areas starting Saturday morning, to find the 19-year-old boy Diganth, who has been missing for more than 10 days.
Diganth, who is a resident of Kidebettu near Farangipet in Ullal taluk and studying in 2nd PUC, is reported to be missing since February 25. With the boy’s mobile phone and footwear with blood stains were found on the railway track in Farangipet, the Bantwal Rural Police Station filed a missing case and are searching for Diganth.
Over the last 12 days, however, the search efforts of more than 40 police personnel have gone futile. SP Yatheesh has now stepped in for the search and taken charge of the combing operation to look for the missing boy.
The inspectors of nine police stations under the Bantwal Sub-division, police station heads and more than 100 police personnel have been searching for Diganth since Saturday morning. Thirty DAR police personnel, Railway police personnel, fire brigade staff member, staff of the Forensic Sciences Laboratory have joined and the dog squad and the drone cameras are being used for a search over a 5-km span. In addition, a search for Diganth is being conducted in the waters of River Nethravathi.
SP Yatheesh, Additional SP Rajendra, Deputy SP Vijayaprasad, Inspectors Shivakumar, Ananthapadmanabha, H Nagaraj, Sub-inspectors Nandakumar, Prasanna, Avinash, Harish, Udayaravi, Ramakrishna, Kishore, Samarth, Arjun, Muralidhara, Anand and Kaushik are among those present in the 10 teams searching for Diganth.
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Assam to lift all cases against Koch Rajbongshis in Foreigners' Tribunals: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
Guwahati, Apr 4 (PTI): The Assam cabinet has decided to lift all cases pending against people from the Koch Rajbongshi community in the Foreigners' Tribunals, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday.
They will also no longer carry the tag of 'D' or doubtful voters, he said.
''There are 28,000 cases pending in different Foreigners' Tribunals in the state against people of the community. The cabinet has taken a historic decision of lifting the cases with immediate effect,'' Sarma said at a press conference here after the cabinet meeting.
The government believes that the Koch Rajbongshis are an indigenous community of the state and they are an inextricable part of ''our social and cultural fabric'', he asserted.
The people of this community are poor and have suffered a lot over the years, he said.
''They will no longer carry the tag of foreigners or ‘D’ voters,'' the CM said.
Foreigners Tribunals are quasi-judicial bodies, particularly in Assam, established to determine if a person residing in India is a "foreigner" as defined by the Foreigners Act of 1946, based on the Foreigners (Tribunals) Order of 1964.
These tribunals are designed to address matters related to citizenship and the presence of “foreigners” in India, specifically focusing on cases where someone is suspected of being an illegal immigrant.
There are 100 Foreigners’ Tribunals across Assam.
The Koch Rajbongshis have a sizeable presence in Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya, and parts of Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan, and they demand Scheduled Tribe status.
