Communal hatred, false allegations spread via WhatsApp in Surathkal: One arrested
Surathkal: Surathkal police have arrested one person for allegedly spreading communal hatred and making false accusations through social media platform WhatsApp.
The arrested individual has been identified as Ram Prasad alias Poch (42), a resident of K.K. Shetty Compound, Kulai village. According to police, he circulated inflammatory and false content targeting a man named Rajesh Honnakatte.
Police also informed that another accused, Lokesh of Kodikere, Surathkal, currently lodged in Udupi district jail in connection with a different case under Padubidri police station limits, was produced before the court in relation to this case after obtaining a body warrant.
According to the complaint, the accused had circulated messages on WhatsApp alleging that Rajesh had converted more than 20 women, had been caught selling obscene CDs, and was now trying to convert women working in his office. The message further falsely claimed that Rajesh was planning to get his brother married to a 24-year-old Hindu woman who had stopped wearing sindoor and started attending church prayers.
Following Rajesh's complaint at the Surathkal police station, a case was registered and action was initiated. Authorities stated that such messages were clearly intended to spread communal tension based on fabricated claims.
Investigations are ongoing.
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Bangladesh court sentences Sheikh Hasina to 10 years in jail in corruption cases
Dhaka (PTI): A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 10 years in jail in two separate corruption cases related to alleged irregularities in allocations of land in a government housing project.
Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-4 Judge Rabiul Alam handed down the verdicts, sentencing Hasina to a total of 10 years’ imprisonment — five years in each case, state-run BSS news agency reported.
The court sentenced 78-year-old Hasina, her nephew Radwan Mujib Siddiq, and her nieces, Tulip Rizwana Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq, and others in the cases over alleged irregularities in the allocation of plots under the Rajuk New Town Project in Purbachol.
The judgment was pronounced at around 12.30 pm.
Tulip Siddiq was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment — two years in each case — while Radwan Mujib Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq were each sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment in both cases.
Rajuk member Mohammad Khurshid Alam, the only accused to surrender before the court, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in each case, totalling two years.
The court also fined all convicted persons Tk1 lakh each and ordered them to serve an additional six months in prison in default of payment.
Hasina has been living in India since she fled Bangladesh on August 5 last year in the face of the massive protests. She was earlier declared a fugitive by the court.
The cases were filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over alleged abuse of power in the allocation of two 10-katha plots.
According to the prosecution, the accused manipulated the allocation process and violated existing rules and regulations of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk).
