No Kambala event in Bengaluru on Oct 26: Committee informs High Court
Bengaluru: The Bengaluru Kambala Committee has informed the High Court that there will be no Kambala event on October 26 at the Palace Grounds in the city, and no request has been submitted to the competent government authority to hold the event elsewhere.
A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed by PETA challenging the Bengaluru Kambala event, and the matter was heard by a division bench comprising Chief Justice N.V. Anjaria and Justice K.V. Aravind.
During the hearing, advocate Vinod Kumar, representing the Bengaluru Kambala Committee, informed the court that no Kambala event is scheduled for October 26. Senior advocate Dhyan Chinnappa, representing PETA, argued that if permission is granted to conduct the event, it should be brought to their attention, so they can approach the court. He also mentioned that a Kambala event is being planned on November 9 near the Pilikula Zoo in Dakshina Kannada. The zoo's director has written to the deputy commissioner, raising concerns about the impact of the event's noise on animals.
Appearing for the state government, Advocate General K. Shashikiran Shetty said that documents related to the legal permission granted for last year’s Bengaluru Kambala will be submitted to the court. He added that PETA's objection centres on the claim that the event causes cruelty to animals. The court is now faced with the question of whether Kambala should be restricted to Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts. Kambala is an integral part of Karnataka's culture, and there is now an opportunity to showcase it across the country. The central issue is whether animals are being subjected to cruelty. He also pointed out that horses are imported and exported to other states and countries for horse racing. He assured the court that any decision taken by the government will be communicated to the bench.
The court directed the state government to submit its objections and adjourned the hearing to November 5.
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Over 17,000 people went missing in Delhi in 2024: NCRB
New Delhi (PTI): A total of 23,058 people, comprising 9,482 men and 13,576 women, were reported missing in Delhi in 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Of the total, 5,491 were children below the age of 18 — 1,571 boys, 3,920 girls.
The city recorded 17,567 fresh adult missing persons cases in 2024, comprising 7,911 men and 9,656 women.
According to the NCRB data, released on Wednesday, 14,637 men, 18,238 women and six transgender persons were still missing from previous years.
At the latest count, in 2024, Delhi had a total of 55,939 missing persons cases — 24,119 men, 31,814 women and six transgender persons.
In 2024, police traced or collected 28,392 missing persons, including 12,182 men, 16,208 women and two transgender persons.
Only half of the men and half of the women who went missing could be traced.
A total of 27,547 missing persons – 11,937 men, 15,606 women, four transgender persons — were yet to be untraced by the end of the year, the data showed.
The data also revealed that 5,352 children from previous years remained untraced at the beginning of 2024.
The number of still missing boys was 1,621, and the number of missing girls was 3,729. Two transgender children were yet to be found.
After adding the pending cases from previous years, the total number of missing children cases handled in 2024 rose to 10,843.
The police traced or recovered 6,762 missing children — 2,030 boys, 4,732 girls.
The recovery rate stood at 63.6 per cent for boys and 61.9 per cent for girls, while no transgender child was traced.
By the end of 2024, a total of 4,081 children remained untraced, 1,162 of them boys, 2,917 girls, and two transgender children.
