Case filed against MP Tejasvi Surya for allegedly sharing fake news about farmer's suicide
Kannada Dunia, Kannada News editors also booked for spreading fake news
Haveri: A case has been registered at the Savanur police station in Haveri against BJP MP Tejasvi Surya, accusing him of spreading false information regarding a young farmer's suicide due to "trouble over Waqf Board property."
FIRs have also been registered against the editors of the Kannada Dunia e-paper and Kannada News e-paper in connection with this matter. The FIR was filed based on a complaint by Sunil Huchhanavar.
It was reported by media outlets Kannada Dunia and Kannada News that a farmer named Rudrappa from the Haranagi village in Haveri district had taken his own life due to distress over Waqf property issues. Tejasvi Surya allegedly shared this false news on his X account, claiming, “Tragedies like these are occurring daily in Karnataka due to CM Siddaramaiah’s and Waqf Minister Zameer Ahmed’s minority appeasement policies.”
However, Haveri district police conducted a fact-check through their X account, clarifying that the claim about Rudrappa's suicide due to Waqf issues was false. Police Superintendent clarified that Rudrappa took his life after his crop, which he had cultivated with a substantial loan, was damaged due to rain. "The police investigation revealed that Rudrappa was distressed over loan repayment due to crop damage. A report on this was submitted to the Tahsildar, and the government has provided the family with Rs 5 lakh in compensation," the SP stated in the fact-check release.
Following this, Tejasvi Surya deleted his tweet. Nevertheless, FIRs have now been registered against Tejasvi Surya and the editors of Kannada Dunia and Kannada News on the same matter.
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UP women's body proposes men shouldn't tailor women's clothes or cut their hair
Lucknow (PTI): Men should not tailor clothes for women or cut a woman’s hair either, the Uttar Pradesh State Women Commission has proposed to protect women from “bad touch” and stymie the ill intentions of men.
The radical raft of suggestions, which includes men not being allowed to take women’s measurements and installing CCTV cameras, followed a meeting held on October 28.
"On October 28, at the meeting of the women commission, a proposal was floated that only female tailors should take the measurement of stitched clothes worn by women and that CCTVs should be installed in these areas," Himani Agarwal, a member of the women's body, told PTI on Friday.
She said the proposal was floated by the state women's commission chairperson Babita Chauhan and it was supported by the members who were present at the meeting.
"We have also said that in salons, it should only be female barbers who should attend to female customers," Agarwal said.
Agarwal added "We are of the view that because of men involved in this type of profession, women are molested. They (men) try to indulge in bad touch.
"The intention of some of the men is also not good," she said, before adding, "not that all the men have bad intentions."
Agarwal said this is just a proposal as of now and the women's commission will subsequently request the state government to make laws in this regard.
