MLA Mahesh Kumatalli missing case: HC issues notice to Ramesh Jarkiholi, state government
Bengaluru, February 11: The Karnataka High Court on Monday served notice to former minister Ramesh Jarakiholi and the state government over missing case of Athani MLA Mahesh Kumatalli.
Hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by advocate and Youth Congress secretary Pramod Dayanand Hiremani of Athani, a bench comprising of Justice Phaneendra and Justice Natarajan issued the notice.
The advocate, arguing for the petitioner, said that former minister Ramesh Jarakiholi kept Athani MLA Mahesh Kumatalli in house arrest illegally and the police should be directed to trace him and produce him before the court.
The advocate further stated that the MLA is facing threat to his life, so the Home department and Athani police should immediately be directed to trace the missing MLA and produce him before the court. While further appealing the court to order immediate interrogation of former minister Ramesh Jarakholi.
About incident
It is said that Mahesh had allegedly informed the applicant of the petition that Ramesh had been forcing him to resign from his MLA post, and was also threatening of kidnapping him if he doesn’t resign. And within sometime after this, Mahesh went missing and now has been untraced for over a month.
He was not found in his constituency Athani, nor did he attend any of the assembly session this month where the JDS-Congress coalition government presented the budget. According to the applicant, the MLA’s family is also not responding clearly about his whereabouts.
The apoplicant has also filed a complaint at the Athani police station dated Feb 7, but the police has not yet filed an FIR into the matter, citing that Mahesh might have been to Bengaluru to attend the assembly session, where he was not found to be, when enquired at the legislator’s house.
The HC has now directed the state government and the police to investigate the matter and trace the missing MLA.
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India could get new PM soon, claims Prithviraj Chavan; says comments linked to Epstein files release
Pune (PTI): Senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan, citing the release of the controversial Jeffrey Epstein files in the United States on December 19, has claimed India could soon have a new prime minister.
He also said the country's new PM could be from Maharashtra.
After a recent social media post in which he hinted that a "Marathi manoos" could become India's PM within a month, Chavan, speaking at an event in Pimpri Chinchwad here on Saturday, said several persons had contacted him seeking a clarification on the remark.
"A lot of developments are taking place at the global level. When I made that post, many asked me to explain what I meant. My statement was based on a hypothetical political possibility. If someone from Maharashtra were to become prime minister, the present prime minister would have to step down. I only underlined the possibility of a change," Chavan explained.
The former Union minister said his comments were linked to December 19, the date on which the US Congress is expected to release the Epstein files that he claimed could have wider global implications.
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"It has been said that the files contain sting operation-related material involving several big leaders. Some names are already doing the rounds on social media," he said.
Speaking to reporters, Chavan said some data in the form of photos has already been released.
"The data contains big world leaders such as presidents, prime ministers. There is a logic that the release of the data might affect our country's politics also and in such a scenario, big developments can take place," Chavan said.
Talking about his "Marathi manoos" becoming PM claim, Chavan said it is just political analysis that if a new prime minister is to be appointed, it will be from within BJP only.
"Given the options in BJP for the new face, I see alternatives from Maharashtra," said Chavan, without elaborating on names he has in mind.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed by US Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump last month, requires that the Justice Department disclose Epstein-related records to the public by Dec 19.
Epstein, a millionaire money manager known for socializing with celebrities, politicians, billionaires and the academic elite, killed himself in jail a month after his 2019 arrest in a sex trafficking case.
