Yeddyurappa dubs Kumaraswamy a 'non-serious" CM, as govt completes 6 months in office
Bengaluru, Nov 23: As the Congress-JD(S) coalition government completed six months in office on Friday, state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa said its survival for six months itself was a big success of the "non serious" Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy.
The government, he said, has neither any direction nor goal, and alleged that Kumaraswamy has spent half of his days in office by visiting temples and the other half by passing time in posh hotels.
"The big achievement of this government, which has completed six months in office, is making false promises to the people.
Its six months survival itself is a big success of Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy," Yeddyurappa said.
He demanded to know why farmers were committing suicide 'on a daily basis', if the government, as claimed, had taken steps in the last six months to alleviate the sufferings of the people.
"Even today farmers committed suicide in Mandya and Kalaburgi.
Most shocking is that the farmers who are committing suicide are holding the chief minister responsible for their deaths" he said in a statement.
On Kumaraswamy's comments that his government was a "child of circumstances", Yeddyurappa said that as far as one's knowledge goes, a baby born out of circumstances would neither have any direction nor a goal to achieve.
"This government, born out of circumstances, has no direction and goal. Surprisingly, the non-serious chief minister Kumaraswamy has spent half of his days in office by visiting temples and the other half by passing time in posh hotels," he added.
On May 23, JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy was sworn-in as chief minister at a grand ceremony attended by a galaxy of top leaders and regional satraps in a rare public show of unity, perceived as a possible harbinger of a broad based anti-BJP alliance ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
The Congress and JD(S), which came second and third respectively in the May 12 Karnataka assembly polls, joined hands to form a government in the post poll scenario to keep BJP, the single largest party, out of power.
Yeddyurappa opined that the only 'achievement' of Kumaraswamy was issuing statements, 'insulting' the people in general and the farmers in particular.
"Power has gone to his head and has made him speak arrogantly and repeatedly say that if the situation warrants I will put in my papers and go home.
This kind of statement is an insult to the people in a democratic set up," he said.
Expressing surprise over Congress leaders' tolerance towards this "non-performing" government and the "arrogance" of the chief minister, who even bullied a woman farmer leader, 'asking her where she had slept for the last four years, he said the Chief Minister has disgraced women by saying so.
Kumaraswamy had clarified that he did not make such a comment to disrespect the woman.
"What I meant was, "why have you woken up to that situation now? Were you sleeping?' I would never disrespect a woman. These are not farmers who are agitating but these are sponsored protests," he had said.
Yeddyurappa said the Congress should be held responsible for all the 'failures' and 'follies of the Chief Minister and added that people would teach the party a lesson in the coming days.
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Broken relationships don't automatically amount to abetment of suicide: SC
New Delhi (PTI): Broken relationships, while emotionally distressing, do not automatically amount to abetment of suicide in the absence of intention leading to the criminal offence, the Supreme Court on Friday said.
The observations came from a bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Ujjal Bhuyan in a judgement, which overturned the conviction of one Kamaruddin Dastagir Sanadi by the Karnataka High Court for the offences of cheating and abetment of suicide under the IPC.
"This is a case of a broken relationship, not criminal conduct," the judgment said.
Sanadi was initially charged under Sections 417 (cheating), 306 (abetment of suicide), and 376 (rape) of the IPC.
While the trial court acquitted him of all the charges, the Karnataka High Court, on the state's appeal, convicted him of cheating and abetment of suicide, sentencing him to five years imprisonment and imposing Rs 25,000 in fine.
According to the FIR registered at the mother's instance, her 21-year-old daughter was in love with the accused for the past eight years and died by suicide in August, 2007, after he refused to keep his promise to marry.
Writing a 17-page judgement, Justice Mithal analysed the two dying declarations of the woman and noted that neither was there any allegation of a physical relationship between the couple nor there was any intentional act leading to the suicide.
The judgement therefore underlined broken relationships were emotionally distressing, but did not automatically amount to criminal offences.
"Even in cases where the victim dies by suicide, which may be as a result of cruelty meted out to her, the courts have always held that discord and differences in domestic life are quite common in society and that the commission of such an offence largely depends upon the mental state of the victim," said the apex court.
The court further said, "Surely, until and unless some guilty intention on the part of the accused is established, it is ordinarily not possible to convict him for an offence under Section 306 IPC.”
The judgement said there was no evidence to suggest that the man instigated or provoked the woman to die by suicide and underscored a mere refusal to marry, even after a long relationship, did not constitute abetment.
