Haveri: Rape case accused hold roadshow after bail, taken into police custody
Haveri: A group of accused in a rape case held a roadshow on Thursday night soon after being released on bail. The police have registered a fresh case in this regard and taken five of the accused into custody.
The Haveri Additional District and Sessions Court had granted conditional bail to seven accused after the rape survivor failed to identify them. Following the court order, videos surfaced on social media showing the accused conducting a roadshow with more than 20 followers in five vehicles from Haveri Sub-Jail to Akki Alur town.
The court had granted bail to Aftab Chandanakatti, Madar Saab Mandakki, Samiullah Lalanava, Mohammed Sadiq Agasimani, Shoaib Mulla, Tauseef Choti, and Rias Savikeri.
The rape survivor had filed a complaint stating that she was gang-raped on January 8, 2024. Following her complaint, 19 individuals were arrested. Of these, 12 were granted bail 10 months ago, while the bail pleas of the main accused had been repeatedly rejected.
Recently, the court granted bail to the remaining accused after the survivor reportedly failed to identify the accused.
The seven accused involved in the roadshow appeared before the Haveri District Court on Friday. It is reported that five of them were taken into police custody while returning from their court appearance.
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Rahul Gandhi should've been allowed to quote Naravane's 'memoir' in LS: Sharad Pawar
Baramati (PTI): NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said that Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi should have been allowed in the Lok Sabha to quote from an unpublished "memoir" of former Army chief MM Naravane.
The controversy on the memoir, 'Four Stars of Destiny', centres on the events of the Indo-China stand-off in 2020.
A row erupted in the Lok Sabha on Monday after Gandhi sought to quote from the unpublished "memoir" of former Army chief Naravane, but Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, along with other BJP members, strongly opposed it and accused the Congress leader of "misleading" the House.
Pawar said Gandhi "should have been allowed" to speak on the subject in Parliament during the Budget session.
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"If the former Army chief has written something and if the leader of the opposition is saying something, then it is his (Gandhi's) right and he should have been given that opportunity," the Rajya Sabha member said at a press conference in Baramati.
He said that an atmosphere of suspicion should not prevail unnecessarily in the country.
"The former Army chief has written something in the book which shows there was some concerning situation. If a discussion had taken place in Parliament on the issue, people could have got a clear picture," Pawar said.
Though the book is unpublished, Gandhi held a copy of it and the Lok Sabha speaker asked to authenticate the copy, he noted. "Why was there opposition (to Gandhi) when the copy was authenticated?" Pawar asked.
Gandhi on Wednesday cited the unpublished "memoir" to claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not fulfil his responsibility during the India-China conflict in 2020 and passed the buck on to Naravane.
Addressing reporters in the premises of Parliament House complex, Gandhi held up Naravane's unpublished "memoir" and said he would like the youngsters in India to know that this 'book' exists despite the government claiming otherwise.
He said Naravane has written the full account of what happened in Ladakh.
Gandhi has also written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, lodging his strong protest over being disallowed from speaking in the House on a matter of national security and terming it a "blot on our democracy".
He has also said that it was for the first time in history that LoP was not allowed to speak on the Motion of Thanks on the President's address.
