Kalasa: Forest officer assaults guard; video goes viral
Kalasa, February 14: An incident of a senior forest officer abusing and assaulting his subordinate for not signing on an unknown file containing fake mahazar documents on regularization of land under Akrama-Sakrama scheme, occurred at the town forest department office here on Thursday.
It is said that forest officer M Veerabhadra of Balehole branch of Kalasa Range of the department assaulted Balehole beat forest guard Keerthan and a video of the incident has gone viral on social media.
A resident of Balehole in Kalasa hobli applied for cultivation deeds of bagair hukum land under 94C. To issue cultivation deed, the forest department was asked for mahazar report. But forest officer Veerabhadra prepared a fake mahazar report on the land and forced forest guard Keerthan to sign the document without showing the report as it required his signature. But Keerthan said that he would not sign file without seeing the report and the documents. Enraged over this, Veerabhadra abused Keerthan with foul language in the office and assaulted him physically, it is said.
Now, the video clip of this incident has gone viral in social media and netizens expressed their anger against the forest officer. It was recorded in the video that the officer was forcing Keerthan to sign the file, while Keerthan declining to sign it. Scenes like pulling the guard, abusing and assaulting him and forcing him to give in writing that he would not sign the file were recorded in the video. Sources said that the incident has reached the higher officers of the department. Though no complaint was lodged against the incident, the higher officers have asked RFO Ravikumar to give a report on the incident, sources said.
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21 hours raid fetch nothing for ED, claims Karnataka Cong MLA’s son
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Congress MLA N A Haris' son Mohammed Haris Nalapad on Tuesday claimed that the 21 hours of search by the ED in his house and other locations did not fetch anything.
The Enforcement Directorate on Monday raided the premises of the two sons of Haris (Mohammed Haris Nalapad and Omar Farook Nalapad), Aqeeb Khan, grandson of ex-Union cabinet minister K Rahman Khan and an alleged crypto hacker named Srikrishna Ramesh alias Sriki in a crypto currency-linked money laundering case.
More than a dozen premises in the city have been covered as part of the action executed under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
"My grandfather is 89-year-old. There is not a single bad mark. My father (N A Haris) is a four-time MLA. There is not a single accusation against him. Their only intention was to target myself and my brother. As simple as that," Mohammed Nalapad, who is a former Karnataka Youth Congress president, told reporters.
According to him, the ED officials carried out raids for 21 hours.
"After 21 hours of search, they took away only two mobile phones from our house. They did not get a single paisa. The ED will testify it," the Congress leader said.
Exuding faith in the law, he said he is ready to fight the case in court.
"Me and my father have opted for politics and we are in public life. You can call me whatever you want but I have not done anything wrong," Mohammed Nalapad said.
Regarding his relationship with Sriki, he said he knew him but had no clue what he was doing.
"I have never said that either me or my brother do not know Sriki. But how will I know what he does in his house? Can his crimes be linked to us," he asked.
The money laundering case stems from some Karnataka Police FIRs and chargesheets filed in a 2017 case of hacking of national and international websites, stealing of bitcoins and sale of these 'stolen' virtual digital assets (VDA) through crypto platforms by the alleged hacker Sriki and his associates.
The Nalapad brothers and Aqeeb Khan are alleged to be the beneficiaries of the proceeds of crime generated through this alleged crypto-linked crime, the ED said.
