Free travel to those who participate in Janaagraha convention
Bus Owners Association’s diktat draws flak
Mangaluru, November 22: The direction of the Dakshina Kannada District Bus Owners Association to the bus owners, drivers and conductors to allow the people, who participate in Janagrah convention organized by the VHP and Bajrang Dal at Nehru Stadium on November 25 in support of Ram Mandir construction at Ayodhya, to travel freely has received widespread criticism.
In a meeting with the office bearers of the Bus Owners Association, MLA Vedavyas Kamath appealed the bus owners to provide free travelling facility to the people who would participate in the convention. Following this, association president Dilraj Alva and general secretary Prakash Shekha directed the bus owners, drivers and conductors to take the people free of cost to the Janagrah convention. This decision has received widespread criticism and being debated in the social media. Earlier also, bus owners association used to support the Hindutva organizations indirectly. Now, by directing the bus owners and drivers to allow the people in the buses freely, the Association has been supporting the Hindutva organizations openly, people accused in the social media.
DYFI
At the time of election, the efforts of BJP and the Sangha Pariwar in communal polarization are part of their political strategy. As part of that agenda, they have organized the convention in Mangaluru on November 25 demanding Ram Mandir construction at Ayodhya. This was completely a political programme with a hidden agenda engineering communal hatred.
The decision of the private bus owners association to provide free travel facility to the people to a political programme is condemnable. It was a shocking news that the association has served notice to all bus owners. A public transportation system should not be misused for certain communal programmes. People of the district should raise their voice against such a decision, said DYFI state president Muneer Katipalla.
Muslim merchants association
Muslim Merchants Association has said that the bus owners association decision is illegal. This would lead problems for the common people to travel in buses. Will the association office-bearers who act as per the Sangh Parivar’s direction, accept if other organizations appealed like this, association president Ali Hassan asked.
Won’t affect passengers: Dilraj Alva
“Following the appeal of MLA Vedavyas Kamath, the bus owners were requested to allow those who participate in Janagrah convention to travel in the buses freely. This is not the new development. Earlier also same kind of facility was made. But I don’t know why this issue is being blown out of proportion. We are not cutting the routes of any buses for this purpose. It is just asked the bus owners to provide the people free travelling opportunity”, Association President Dilraj Alva told Varthabharathi.
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Jharkhand horror: Man kills live-in partner, chops body into 40 pieces
Ranchi (PTI): A 25-year-old man, who works as a butcher, allegedly strangled to death his live-in partner and chopped her body into 40 to 50 pieces in a forested area in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, police said on Wednesday.
The accused, identified as Naresh Bhengra, was arrested.
The matter came to light after around a fortnight after the killing when a stray dog was found with human body parts near Jordag village in Jariagarh police station on November 24.
Bhengra was in a live-in relationship with the deceased, a 24-year-old woman also from Khunti district, in Tamil Nadu for the past couple of years. Sometime back, he returned to Jharkhand, got married to another woman without telling his partner anything and went back to the southern state without his wife to join her.
"The brutal incident occurred on November 8 when they reached Khunti as the accused who had married another woman did not wish to take her home. Instead, he took her to a forest near his house at Jordag village in Jariagarh police station and chopped the body into pieces. The man has been arrested," Khunti Superintendent of Police Aman Kumar told PTI.
Inspector Ashok Singh who investigated the case said the man worked in a butcher shop in Tamil Nadu and was expert in slicing chicken.
“He admitted chopping the body parts of the woman into 40 to 50 pieces before leaving those in the forest for wild animals to feast on. The police recovered several parts on November 24 after a dog in the area was seen with a hand," Singh told PTI.
Singh said that the woman, who was unaware of his marriage, pressured him to return to Khunti. After reaching Ranchi, they boarded a train on November 24 and headed to the man's village.
"Under a plan, the man took her to Khunti in an autorickshaw near his home and asked her to wait. He returned with sharp weapons and strangulated her with her dupatta after raping her. He then cut the body into 40 to 50 pieces and left for his home to live with his wife," Singh said.
The woman, however, had informed her mother that she had boarded a train and would be living with her partner, the police officer said.
Following the recovery of body parts, a bag was also found in the forest with the murdered woman's belongings including her Aadhaar card. The mother of the woman was called at the spot and she identified her daughter's belongings.
"The mother suspected the man behind the crime who after being nabbed by the police admitted to chopping the woman into pieces," the official added.
The incident has sent shockwaves among people in the region, with the Shraddha Walker murder case of 2022 still fresh in their memory.
Walker was killed by her live-in partner who chopped her body into pieces before dumping them in the jungle in South Delhi’s Mehrauli.
