Home Stay attack: Court dismisses case on scribe Naveen Soorinje
Mangaluru, Dec 5: The 6th Additional District Court on Wednesday dismissed a case on journalist Naveen Soorinje in a home stay attack incident where the journalists who had been to collect the information were made accused.
When Hindu Jagarana Vedike members attacked the youth who were engaged in a homestay party at Padil Badlagudde in the city on July 28, 2012.
Naveen Soorinje and his cameraman Sharan Raj visited the spot to collect the information. But the Mangaluru Rural police have arrested them accusing them of not informing the police despite they have prior information about the attack. Naveen Soorinje was jailed for four and half months in this case.
This incident has made headlines in the media. But the people across the state opined that Naveen has gone to the spot as a journalist to collect the information and the information he has collected should be considered as evidence instead of considering him as the accused.
After this, the state government has appealed the court to drop the case on Naveen Soorinje. Interestingly, the other accused in this case opposed the decision of the state government to drop the case against Naveen. So, the process of dismissing the case against Naveen was delayed.
Now, based on the appeal of the state government, the court has dismissed the case on Naveen Soorinje. However, the trial on other accused in the case would continue. Advocate Dinesh Hegde Ulippady argued on behalf of Naveen in the case.
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Migrant worker from Bengal beaten to death over bidi in Odisha: Police
Sambalpur/ Kolkata (PTI): A 30-year-old migrant worker from West Bengal was allegedly killed in Odisha's Sambalpur district following an altercation over a bidi, police said on Thursday.
Juel Sheikh was working, along with a few others from West Bengal, in the construction of a building in Shanti Nagar in the Ainthapalli police station area, they said.
On Wednesday night, when they were returning from work, a group of six men stopped them and asked for a bidi. An altercation broke out, leading to a scuffle between the two sides, police said.
Juel was thrashed severely, and he died while undergoing treatment at the Sambalpur hospital, police said.
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"We have arrested all six accused persons. We are investigating the case," IGP (Northern Range) Himanshu Kumar Lal told PTI.
West Bengal's ruling TMC claimed that Juel was beaten to death over suspicion that he was an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant.
"The lynching of a Bengali migrant worker in Sambalpur is the direct outcome of @BJP4India’s sustained campaign against Bengalis. A citizen of India was beaten to death because a mob believed the lie that Bengalis are infiltrators who must constantly prove their right to exist," the TMC alleged in a post on X.
"For years, BJP leaders have deliberately branded Bengali-speaking Indians as infiltrators, outsiders, and suspects. That poisonous narrative has now reached the streets, where anyone feels empowered to act as immigration officers and executioners," it claimed.
Asked about the allegation, the IGP said the murder has nothing to do with whether the "victim was a Bengali or Bangladeshi".
