‘Coalition’ for the survival of country: Former PM Deve Gowda
Thanksgiving programme at Ballari
Ballari, November 22: “We have not come together for power. Instead we have come together for the sake of the country. The central government has been weakening various institutions including CBI”, former prime minister HD Deve Gowda.
Speaking at a thanksgiving programme at the Municipal ground here on Thursday, he said that the central government has been attacking the leaders of the Opposition Party leaders. So, in order to win the by-election, the Congress-JDS have come together.
Questioning the clamorous campaigning and using insulting words, Deve Gowda said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ruled the country in a worst condition. Ugrappa has contested from Ballari and elected with a huge margin. The people of the district selected him and he was an experienced politician, he said.
For the last 18 years, BJP was elected from Ballari constituency. Now, Minister DK Shivakumar has taken over the by-election and now, won the election. Ugrappa has strived for the reservation and including the Nayak community to ST category. In Uttar Pradesh, Muslims were harassed and dalits were assaulted. Many of such incidents have happened in the country and it was the right time to dethrone the BJP from the country, he said.
“We have won in Ballari, Mandya, Jamakhandi and Ramanagar constituencies. But in Shivamogga Lok Sabha constituency, we have lost in a narrow margin. Rahul Gandhi has become the AICC president in young age and the next Lok Sabha election will be conducted under his leadership. Ugrappa will contest again”, he said.
Coordination Committee president and former chief minister Siddaramaiah, KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao, Ballari District Incharge Minister DK Shivakumar, MP VS Ugrappa, leaders Allam Veerabhadrappa and others were present.
“BJP leaders including BS Yeddyurappa have said that they would form the government after the by-election results. Sriramulu has said that ‘Shanta will go to Parliament, DKS will go to jail’. But what message does the result gave to the country? This victory is the victory of Ballari people. There was no voice of Ballari people in the parliament. In future, Ugrappa will become your voice. I will bring special package for the development of the district”.
- DK Shivakumar, District Incharge Minister
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Broken relationships don't automatically amount to abetment of suicide: SC
New Delhi (PTI): Broken relationships, while emotionally distressing, do not automatically amount to abetment of suicide in the absence of intention leading to the criminal offence, the Supreme Court on Friday said.
The observations came from a bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Ujjal Bhuyan in a judgement, which overturned the conviction of one Kamaruddin Dastagir Sanadi by the Karnataka High Court for the offences of cheating and abetment of suicide under the IPC.
"This is a case of a broken relationship, not criminal conduct," the judgment said.
Sanadi was initially charged under Sections 417 (cheating), 306 (abetment of suicide), and 376 (rape) of the IPC.
While the trial court acquitted him of all the charges, the Karnataka High Court, on the state's appeal, convicted him of cheating and abetment of suicide, sentencing him to five years imprisonment and imposing Rs 25,000 in fine.
According to the FIR registered at the mother's instance, her 21-year-old daughter was in love with the accused for the past eight years and died by suicide in August, 2007, after he refused to keep his promise to marry.
Writing a 17-page judgement, Justice Mithal analysed the two dying declarations of the woman and noted that neither was there any allegation of a physical relationship between the couple nor there was any intentional act leading to the suicide.
The judgement therefore underlined broken relationships were emotionally distressing, but did not automatically amount to criminal offences.
"Even in cases where the victim dies by suicide, which may be as a result of cruelty meted out to her, the courts have always held that discord and differences in domestic life are quite common in society and that the commission of such an offence largely depends upon the mental state of the victim," said the apex court.
The court further said, "Surely, until and unless some guilty intention on the part of the accused is established, it is ordinarily not possible to convict him for an offence under Section 306 IPC.”
The judgement said there was no evidence to suggest that the man instigated or provoked the woman to die by suicide and underscored a mere refusal to marry, even after a long relationship, did not constitute abetment.
