60 lakh new voters in poll-bound Karnataka: state Chief Electoral Officer
Bengaluru: About 60 lakh people have enrolled as new voters across Karnataka ahead of the 15th assembly elections, due in late April or early May.
Sanjiv Kumar, state chief electoral officer (CEO) siad "the number of new voters across the state has increased by 60 lakh, taking the total number of electorate to 4.96 crore as per the tentative electoral rolls as against 4.36 crore voters in 2013 assembly elections.”
The final electoral rolls from the 224 assembly constituencies of the state are scheduled to be released on February 28.
According to the tentative electoral rolls, the number of male voters is 2.51 crore and female voters 2.44 crore.
Around 4,552 people, who identify with the 'third gender', have registered to vote in the upcoming polls.
"The number of young voters (aged 18-19), who will be voting for the first time, has doubled to 15.42 lakh as per the tentative rolls as against 7.18 lakh in 2013 elections," Mr Kumar added.
Bengaluru South assembly constituency has the highest number of voters at 5.5 lakh.
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ED searches Empuraan producer Gopalan's chit fund firm in FEMA case
New Delhi (PTI): The Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted searches at the chit fund company premises of Kerala-based businessman Gokulam Gopalan, one of the producers of the movie "L2: Empuraan", as part of an alleged Rs 1,000 crore foreign exchange violation case, official sources said.
The searches are being undertaken at five premises in various states, including in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and Kochi (Kerala), under the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), the sources said.
The action is being undertaken against Gopalan and his company Sree Gopalan chit and Finance Co. Ltd. for alleged FEMA violations of Rs 1,000 crore with certain NRIs and some related "unauthorised" transactions, the sources.
The agency is also understood to be analysing some "cheating" cases against the company for possible investigation under the anti-money laundering law.
"L2: Empuraan", the second part of the "Lucifer" movie, a trilogy planned by the Prithviraj-Mohanlal team, has become a topic of hot debate over its critique of right-wing politics and the covert mention of the Gujarat riots.
Mohanlal recently expressed regret over the raging row and assured that the controversial portions would be removed from the movie.
