Honnavar, Dec. 22: Uttara Kannada District police has on Thursday suo motu registered a case against Udupi Chikmagalur Member of Parliament Shobha Karandlaje for provocation with intent to cause riot , promoting enmity between different groups and publishing statement creating or promoting enimity , hatred.  

The BJP leader has been booked under Section 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot — if rioting be committed — if not committed), 153 (A) (Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) and Section 505 (2) (statements creating or promoting enmity, hatred or ill-will between classes) of the Indian Penal Code, according to the  the Honnavar Police . 

 

 

On 14th December 2017, Shobha had tweeted that `Jihadis tried to rape and murder a girl studying in 9th std near honnavar. Why is the govt silent about this incident ? Arrest those who molested and injured this girl. Where are you CM @Siddaramaiah?’. She had tweeted this after some right wing social media groups started campaign that a girl has been attacked with knives by two unidentified persons near Honnavar. But investigations revealed that no one had attacked the girl. District SP Vinayak Patil clarified that out of fear of exams girl had inflicted herself with injuries.

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Gurugram, Dec 26: Simran Singh, a popular freelance radio jockey from Jammu and Kashmir with nearly seven lakh followers on Instagram, allegedly committed suicide in her rented house in Sector 47 here, police said on Thursday.

Her body was found hanging in her room on Wednesday night, they said, adding no suicide note was found from the spot.

The Instagram profile of Simran, known by her fans as "Jammu Ki Dhadkan", shows she last posted a reel on December 13, police said.

According to police, Simran who had 6,82,000 followers on Instagram lived on rent with other friends in house number 58 of Sector 47 here for the last several months.

Sunil Kumar, SHO of Sadar police station, said that they got information at around 9:30pm on Wednesday by a Simran's friend who was staying in the same house.

A police team reached the spot and found the Simran's room locked from inside. The team broke open the door of the room and found her hanging, the SHO said.

Her family members, who reached here after being informed about the incident, said that she was upset for some time, he said.

"We handed over the body to the family members after the postmortem today. A probe is underway," the SHO added.