Mangaluru: A suo motu case has been registered against a dietician working at Highland Hospital in Mangaluru after the individual allegedly posted anti-national content on social media. The hospital management has also dismissed the staff member from service following the incident.

City Police Commissioner Anupam Agrawal confirmed that the dietician has been taken into custody and is being questioned in connection with the post. The police have seized the dietician’s mobile phones for further investigation, he added.

According to hospital authorities, the decision to terminate the employee was taken immediately after the post began circulating widely on social media, drawing strong reactions from the public. The hospital's human resources department has also lodged a complaint with the Pandeshwar Police Station.

The police are continuing their probe into the matter.

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Bengaluru, May 10 (PTI): In view of the prevailing security situation in the country, policemen will not be given leaves, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said on Saturday.

He said the Chief Minister will hold a special meeting this evening to review the preparedness to deal with any situation.

"We will not approve any leaves or holidays of policemen at this juncture because we don't know when normalcy returns. The Centre will inform us when the normalcy returns. Till such time we have to be alert," Parameshwara told reporters.

He said the state government has to work effectively everywhere especially in the coastal region.

"Learning from our past experience during war, security should be strong in the coastal regions. We have to be alert all along the coastal line, right from Uttar Kannada to Dakshina Kannada," the Minister explained.

According to Parameshwara, there are three layers of security in the coastal area, which are police, security arranged by ports and the Indian Navy.

He also said that Siddaramaiah will chair a meeting with officials of Home and Revenue Department to review the preparedness of the state government to deal with any situation.

The chief minister would review the availability of essential commodities and all other equipments to deal with any crisis that may emerge in the wake of "war like situation" in the country, he explained.

"All the necessary arrangements such as ensuring availability of food grains, essential commodities, water, hospitals and medicines have to be made. It is just a preparation," Parameshwara said.

During the meeting the Chief Minister will also discuss any latest advisory that might have come from the Centre the previous day, the Minister said.

He added that the centre has issued a set of advisories to all the state governments. Accordingly Karnataka government has taken measures.

"We have tightened the security in and around sensitive locations. We have also identified some locations where suspicious activities can happen. We have sensitised all the locations in the state," Parameshwara said.

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