Kundapura: Tipper owners protest against sand problem
Protesters take Shobha Karandlaje to task
Kundapura, October 19: The indefinite protest, being conducted by the Taluk Tippers Owners Association in Kundapura, Koteshwara and Hemmadi demanding solution for sand problem, entered the second day on Friday.
The protest started from Thursday morning and tipper owners have parked their tippers and lorries on either side of national highway at Kundapura and Hemmadi demanding the district administration to find solution to the sand problem. “The deputy commissioner has promised them of giving permission to lift sand by October 15. Tipper owners have purchased the vehicles borrowing loans to the tunes of lakhs.
Due to sand problem, the tipper owners have no work. We are staging the protest in order to draw the attention of the government and the district administration. Till the sand problem is solved, the tippers will not come to the roads. If the district administration is not responded to their problem, we would shift our protest to the DC office where we will stage indefinite hunger strike”, warned Association President Rajesh Kaveri.
Association Taluk President Gunakar Shetty, Sharath Kumar Shetty Balikere, Ramesh Kundar, Nityananda, Anand Naik, Sathish Hegde Alur and others were present.
Protesters take Shobha Karandlaje to task!
The protesters took Udupi-Chikmagalur MP Shobha Karandlaje who visited the place where the tipper owners were staging a protest, to task and expressed their ire against the MP. When she tried to speak to agitators, the protesters said that they have been facing this problem for the last many years. Despite having the elected representatives, they have failed to direct the Deputy Commissioner and solve the problem. You people promise the people everything before elections. But later, you will disappear. The tipper owners were finding it difficult even to repay the loans, they said.
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Gurugram Police arrest BJP Yuva Morcha member for spreading fake murder story on social media
New Delhi: Gurugram Police have arrested BJP Yuva Morcha member Hariom Mishra, for allegedly spreading a fabricated and communally sensitive story on social media about the murder of a college student in Gurugram.
Mishra who is also known as Shaurya Mishra had shared a collage of four photographs on his X handle earlier this month. He claimed that a 24-year-old college student, identified as Nikita Agarwal, had been murdered by her classmate Arif Khan in Gurugram. In the post, he alleged that the woman was blackmailed, forced into prostitution, gangraped, and eventually killed. He also claimed that Arif dumped her body in a forest. The claims were presented as being based on police sources.
The post went viral and garnering over 1.5 lakh views, and was amplified by several right-wing social media handles across X, Facebook and Instagram. A verification of the claims revealed that no such incident had taken place in Gurugram. A search of credible news reports showed no record of any such murder. The police said this news would have inevitably attracted media attention if it were true.
On December 11, Gurugram Police publicly refuted the claims through their official X handle. They stated that the information which was being circulated was completely false. The police warned that legal action would be taken against those spreading misinformation. Despite the warning, Mishra neither deleted the post nor issued any clarification.
Police in Gurugram confirmed Mishra's arrest on December 16. The police said a FIR was filed after he continued to spread false information about the alleged murder of a Hindu woman by Muslim man. Police said Mishra, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district, is now being investigated.
Gurugram Police spokesperson Sandeep Singh told The Print that the accused had deliberately misrepresented facts and used objectionable content to spread hatred along religious lines. “Such posts can create serious disturbances in society, and the police take these matters very seriously,” he said.
A reverse image search conducted by fact-checkers at Alt News, revealed that the photographs used in the viral post were unrelated to the claims, while two of the images were traced to a Pinterest account belonging to influencer Maulik Chopra and another image was sourced from an Instagram post by influencer Shivam Thakur featuring a woman named Deepanshi Rawat. The fourth image was found on an unrelated Instagram page. The images depicted different individuals and had no connection to any crime.
Police said they are also investigating Mishra’s motive behind sharing the false and provocative content.
