Shivamogga: Agents led by BJP corporator insult RTO officer by showing slipper
Shivamogga, Feb 18: Video clippings of insulting the Deputy Transport Commissioner by showing the slipper and discriminatory abuse on his caste, by some RTO agents led by a BJP corporator at the Regional Transport Office here, has gone viral in the social media creating widespread resentment against the incident.
The incident occurred at the RTO office on Saturday afternoon. Currently, when the video has gone viral in social media, the District Government Employees Association and DSS office-bearers visited the RTO office and collected information from the officer and urged the authorities to take legal action against the culprits.
Following these developments, senior regional transport officer Srinivasaiah lodged a complaint against BJP corporator E Vishwas, RTO agents Mohan, Alase Raju, Laxman, Javeed, Munaf, Siraj and others at the Jayanagar police station.
He lodged the case on atrocity, obstructing the government employee from discharging his duty, insult and etc. Based on these, the police registered the case under various columns of the IPC.
About incident
Recently, Srinivasaiah took charge as the deputy transport commissioner. Later, he came to know about the menace of agents in the office and some staff have been getting their works done through some agents.
Later, he imposed restrictions on the entry of agents to the premises where employees are working. He also took initiatives to to bring efficiency in the work. It is said that the officer has also took an agent who was working for an employee to task.
The employees informed these developments to the agents who were angry about the decisions taken by Srinivasaiah.
On Saturday, all the agents led by BJP corporator E Vishwas, who is also working as an RTO agent, barged into the office of Srinivasaiah, insulted him and his officers in discriminatory and even threatened them after showing the slipper at him. This incident was recorded in the CCTV cameras.
Apart from this, some people have recorded it in their mobile phones and posted in social media. When the incident got attention in the social media, RTO officers lodged complaint, sources said.
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EC demands extra security as unrest grips Bangladesh afresh
Dhaka (PTI): The Election Commission (EC) has demanded extra security for its chief, other commissioners and officials as fresh unrest visibly gripped Bangladesh after gunmen shot an upcoming parliamentary polls candidate and frontline leader of last year's violent street movement dubbed 'July Uprising'.
"The EC has written to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) urging comprehensive security arrangements for the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Election Commissioners (ECs), senior officials of the Election Commission Secretariat," the state-run BSS news agency reported on late Saturday.
The EC simultaneously sought the extra security for its field-level offices ahead of the 13th national election, as two of them came under attack in southeastern Lakshmipur and southwestern Pirojpur by unidentified miscreants after the announcement of the schedule for the upcoming polls on Thursday.
The commission demanded an additional escort vehicle for the CEC, while one such police escort with a vehicle was currently in place for him. It asked for round-the-clock police escorts for the four commissioners and the senior secretary.
The letter said the enhanced security measures were "urgent and necessary," while EC officials said their 10 regional offices, 64 district election offices and 522 sub-district level offices would store important documents and election materials.
The EC on Thursday said the upcoming parliamentary election would be held on February 12 next year, while a day later, Sharif Osman Hadi was shot from a close range in the head, critically wounding him, as he initiated his election campaign from a constituency in the capital.
Critically ill former prime minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) simultaneously asked Muhammad Yunus' government to provide security for all candidates in the upcoming election after the attack on Hadi, who leads a radical right-wing cultural group called Inquiab Mancha.
"We demand that the real culprit be identified immediately and brought under the law, and we call upon this government to ensure the security of all candidates without delay," BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said.
Hadi was also a frontline leader of last year's student-led violent uprising that toppled then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government on August 5, 2024.
His Inquilab Mancha was also at the forefront of a campaign to disband the Awami League, which the interim government complied with in May this year, disqualifying the party from contesting the polls.
The government on Saturday ordered a nationwide security clampdown called 'Operation Devil Hunt 2' amid escalated fears over the law and order situation and promised to issue firearms licenses for election candidates for their own security.
Home adviser (retd) Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said the government had taken steps to ensure special security for the "frontline fighters" of the July Uprising and promised to issue firearms licenses for the election candidates.
He emphasised that the second phase of the 'Devil Hunt' was aimed at helping ensure public safety and combat the growing threat of illegal arms.
The operation was initially launched in February this year following protests over an attack on the private house of a former minister of the ousted government in the northern suburb of the capital, when it targeted alleged "henchmen" and supporters of the now disbanded Awami League.
