Karnataka Cabinet to hold special meeting on SC internal reservation issue on Apr 24
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has convened a special Cabinet meeting on April 24 to discuss the pending issue of internal reservation among Scheduled Castes, which has emerged as a major challenge for the state administration.
The meeting, to be chaired by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, will be held at 2 pm at Vidhana Soudha.
The issue has placed the government in a difficult position due to differences between Left-Hand and Right-Hand Scheduled Caste communities over internal reservation.
An earlier Cabinet meeting had been called to discuss the matter, but it was postponed in view of the by-elections in Davanagere and Bagalkot constituencies.
Following directions from the Supreme Court of India, discussions are now centred on providing internal reservation through classification of the existing 15 per cent Scheduled Caste quota into Categories A, B and C.
The special Cabinet meeting is expected to deliberate on the matter and decide the government’s next course of action.
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Punjab: 15-year-old girl gives birth to baby months after alleged rape
Chandigarh (PTI): A 15-year-old girl has delivered a baby in Jalandhar, months after she was allegedly raped by a boy in Amritsar, police said on Thursday.
The class 9 student has been living with her aunt in Jalandhar for the past seven months, said the aunt who filed the complaint of rape to the police.
When contacted over phone on Thursday, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Phillaur, Bharat Masih said, "We have registered a Zero FIR in the matter as the alleged rape took place in Amritsar.." He said the accused is 16 years old.
The victim's aunt said in her complaint that a month and a half back, the teenager complained of abdominal pain, due to which, she was taken for a checkup to a private doctor in Jalandhar's Nurmahal. The doctor prescribed some medicines, she said.
On April 19, the girl complained of severe abdominal pain, after which she took the teenager to a private hospital in Phillaur in Jalandhar. The doctor there referred the girl to another hospital, where she was told that she was pregnant.
Later, she gave birth to a baby in the hospital. When the girl's aunt asked her about her pregnancy, she said that a boy in Amritsar who lived in her locality had raped her, the complainant said.
A police station under Jalandhar Rural police jurisdiction has registered a Zero FIR in the matter and the boy has been booked under relevant provisions of the POCSO Act and the BNS on April 20, police said.
A Zero FIR is an FIR that can be filed in any police station, irrespective of place of incident/jurisdiction and the same can be later transferred to the appropriate police station.
