Ashraf Salettur incident: Bunder station ASI suspended
Mangaluru, November 6: City Police Commissioner TR Suresh suspended Bunder police station ASI Chandrashekar in related to assaulting Ashraf Salettur accusing him of posting insulting article in Facebook.
Against a Facebook post of some people that ‘Kerala was flooded as the Supreme Court has allowed woman in her menstruation period to enter Sabarimala temple’, Ashraf had asked ‘who is responsible for floods in Tulu Nadu, the creation of Parashurama?’ This has attracted comments favouring his stand and opposing him. Based on this, Bunder police station police have booked suo moto case against Ashraf under Section 153 and 505(2) and produced him before the court on August 22. The court has remanded him to judicial custody. After one week in jail, he came out on bail. Even after his release, he was questioning the injustice he meted out from the police. But the police served him a notice on September 4 saying that you have criticized the same issue in Facebook during the bail period and asked him to appear before the investigating officer. Otherwise, the police would file a petition before the court for cancellation of bail, it was said in the notice.
Considering this issue seriously, DYFI organization appealed the City Police Commissioner and the District Minister. Following the internal enquiry, the Commissioner has suspended the ASI.
DYFI district president BK Imtiyaz said that ‘the police department has tried to cover-up the case. As the court has allowed Ashraf to appoint his advocate, the police department has suspended the ASI. But it has not taken any action against DCP crime branch and CCB police for torturing Ashraf behind the bars, which is condemnable. The investigation method of the police officers has reduced the confidence on the department, he said.
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10-year-old boy killed after leopard drags him away in Chamarajanagar
Chamarajanagar: A 10-year-old boy was killed in a leopard attack near Male Mahadeshwara Hills in Hanur taluk of Chamarajanagar district on Sunday morning.
The deceased has been identified as Harshit, a resident of Bengaluru. He had visited the Male Mahadeshwara Betta Temple with his family and was on his way to Nagamale when the leopard attacked and dragged him away, police said.
After a search operation, the boy’s body was recovered from a nearby forest area about half an hour later.
The body was shifted to the Male Mahadeshwara Hills Primary Health Centre for further procedures.
