Bengaluru: Kodi Circle to be renamed after late IPS officer Madhukar Shetty
Shetty's statue will also be installed at the circle
Bengaluru: As a mark of respect to the late IPS officer Madhukar Shetty, BBMP will rename the Kodi Circle in Whitefield as Madhukar Shetty Circle and will install his statue at the circle, Mayor Gangambike Mallikarjun informed.
Fore DCP of Whitefield Abdul Ahad and other friends of Shetty wanted a circle in the locality be named after Madhukar Shetty, following which Corporator S Uday Kumar proposed the plan of naming Kodi Circle after Shetty. The Pallike’s Town Planning Standing Committee approved the proposal of Uday Kumar.
According to the reports the funds sanctioned for the development of the ward will be used for installing Shetty’s statue at the circle.
Shetty a 1999 batch IPS officer died in December 2018 while undergoing treatment for swine flu at Continental Hospitals in Hyderabad. He is remembered for his role in exposing illegal iron ore mining in Ballari, the backyard of powerful mining baron Janardhan Reddy.
Shetty was the son of Kannada journalist Vaddarse Raghurama Shetty.and had worked as ASP Bengaluru Rural district and later as SP of Chamarajanagar and Chikkamagaluru.
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Karnataka Assembly passes hate speech bill amid din
Belagavi (Karnataka), Dec 18 (PTI): The Karnataka Assembly on Thursday passed a bill against hate speech amid a din.
The Hate Speech and Hate Crimes (Prevention) Bill, the first such law in the country, has a provision for a jail term up to seven years and fine up to Rs one lakh.
It was passed amid din by the BJP MLAs.
The bill, cleared by the cabinet on December 4, was presented in the House by Home Minister G Parameshwara on December 10.
The Minister said the provision for 10 years jail term in the event of repeated offence has been reduced to seven years.
According to the bill, any expression, which is made, published or circulated in words either spoken or written or by signs or by visible representations or through electronic communication or otherwise, in public view, with an intention to cause injury, disharmony or feelings of enmity or hatred or ill-will against person alive or dead, class or group of persons or community, to meet any prejudicial interest, is hate speech.
During the discussion, Urban Development Minister Byrathi Suresh said coastal Karnataka is "burning" due to hate speech and hate crime.
BJP MLAs from the region raised objections to this and then trooped into the well of the house. Other BJP legislators followed them.
Later, the bill was passed.
