North-West Graduates’ Constituency; BJP Candidate Hanumantha Nirani wins
Belagavi: Following the completion of the two graduates and two teachers’ constituency elections on June 13, the vote-counting process for the North-West graduates’ constituency came to an end with BJP candidate Hanumantha Nirani securing victory by a difference of 34.693 votes.
Reportedly, the vote-counting process for the constituency was completed late on Wednesday night, with 9,006 votes classified as invalid from a total of 65,992 votes.
Hanumantha Nirani, who is a younger brother of the Minister for large and medium industries Murugesh Nirani, had also previously represented the graduates’ constituency.
While Nirani has received 44,815 votes, his opposing candidate from Congress, Sunil Sanka received 10,122 votes, it is learned.
Vote-counting for the Southern Graduates’ Constituency: The vote-counting procedure for the Vidhana Parishad’s Southern graduates’ constituency is currently underway. The vote-counting process for this constituency’s election which includes Mandya, Hassan, and Chamrajanagar districts has continued to Thursday. Congress party’s candidate Madhu. G Madegowda has been leading thus far, it is learned.
The counting of votes is being undertaken at the Maharani Arts and Commerce College at Paduvarahalli on Mysuru-Hunsur road in the city.
CM Bommai extends congratulatory message: The Chief Minister in his congratulatory message to the BJP’s victorious candidate said, “Hearty congratulations to Hanumantha Nirani for securing victory for the second time in the Vidhana Parishad elections from the North-West graduates’ constituency. Thanks to the mature graduate voters from the constituency, the BJP Karnataka activists who laboured day and night, and the party leaders who have led to this victory”, the CM tweeted.
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Chhattisgarh court grants bail to two Kerala nuns in human trafficking-conversion case
Bilaspur (PTI): A special court in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district on Saturday granted bail to three persons, including two nuns from Kerala, arrested on charges of human trafficking and forced religious conversion, lawyers said.
Principal District and Sessions Judge (NIA court) Sirajuddin Qureshi had reserved the order on their bail pleas after a hearing on Friday.
The court has granted conditional bail to the trio, defence lawyer Amrito Das said.
Catholic nuns Preethi Merry and Vandana Francis, both from Kerala, along with Sukaman Mandavi, were arrested at the Durg railway station on July 25, following a complaint from a local Bajrang Dal functionary, who accused them of forcibly converting three girls from Narayanpur and trafficking them, a railway police official had said.
Following the bail hearing on Friday, Das had said that the prosecution had not asked for the trio's custody for interrogation, and the alleged victims had been sent back to their homes.
