Election Code violation : HC quashes case against Janardhana Poojary
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Friday quashed the trial from the lower court against violation of election code of conduct during the last Lok Sabha election.
Janardhana Poojary has filed a petition before the High Court requesting to quash the case against him. Upholding the petition, the Single Judge Bench led by Justice PS Dinesh Kumar quashed the case registered at Mangaluru North police station and the trial from the 2nd Additional JMFC Court.
Poojary had contested from Mangaluru Lok Sabha constituency in the 2014 LS poll. After filing his nomination papers on March 26, 2014, Poojary held a press conference at the party office and thus violated the election code of conduct, according GV Rajashekar who registered a case at the Mangaluru North police station under Public Representatives Act and under various sections of the IPC.
Based on the complaint, the police filed an FIR and investigated and submitted the charge sheet to the lower court. Hearing the case, the court had issued a summons on October 1, 2015 and asked him to attend the court. In turn, Poojary had filed a petition before the High Court in 2015 appealing to quash the summons issued by the lower court and the case against him. Accepting the case for hearing, the High Court has quashed the election code violation case against Janardhan Poojary.
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Drug peddler's property worth Rs 1 crore attached in Srinagar
Srinagar (PTI): Property worth Rs 1 crore belonging to a notorious drug peddler was on Saturday attached in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar, police said.
A double-storey house on eight marlas of land situated at Wantpora Eidgah, belonging to Basit Bilal Dar, a notorious drug peddler, valued at approximately Rs 1 crore, a police spokesperson said.
He said Dar is involved in two cases registered under various sections of the NDPS Act.
During investigation, it was established that the accused had acquired the said property through illicit proceeds generated from drug trafficking activities, the spokesperson said.
Consequently, the property was attached under the provisions of the NDPS Act. The attachment proceedings were conducted in the presence of the two independent witnesses, strictly in accordance with the prescribed legal procedures, he said.
As per the attachment order, the owner has been restrained from selling, leasing, transferring, altering, or creating any third-party interest in the property till further orders, the spokesperson added.
