Bannanje Raja comes to Udupi to see his mother in police security
Night stay at city station lock-up
Udupi, July 08: The police have brought underworld fugitive don Bannanje Raja who is in Belagavi jail, to Udupi to see his mother who is suffering from illness, following the permission from the Principal District and Sessions Court of Udupi on Sunday.
As of now, Raja was kept in Udupi city police station lock-up. The police have allowed him to stay with his mother at Kalmadi on Monday from 6am to 6pm.
Court permission
During the hearing at the court, Bannanje Raja who was in Belagavi Hindalga jail had appealed Judge Venkatesh Nayak through video conference to allow him to see his mother as she was ill. His advocate Shantaram Shetty filed an appeal before the court.
Following his appeal, the judge had given permission on July 5 to see his mother and stay with her from 6 am to 6 pm. The court also directed him to bear the expenses of his travel and security and pay it to the police department. Based on that, the DAR police team led by Udupi city police inspector Sunil Kumar went to Belagavi on July 7 and brought him to Udupi on Sunday morning with tight police security. Meanwhile, Raja was subjected to medical check-up at the Kundapura government hospital and brought him to Udupi police station at 6.45 pm.
Tight security around police station
Tight police security was arranged around the city police station where Raja was kept in the lock-up. Armed police personnel were deputed for the security. Before Raja was brought to the station, sufficient police force was deputed around the police station under the leadership of Udupi circle inspector Manjunath. Soon after he was taken inside the police station, the gate was closed and no one was allowed inside.
The police station was equipped with three CCTV cameras to keep a vigil on his movement inside the station where he would stay till July 10 morning. Today, Udupi SP Lakshman Nimbargi and ASP Kumarachandra visited the police station and reviewed the police security. Kundapura DySP Dinesh Nayak was present.
Police security to his house at Kalmadi
Police sources said that Bannanje Raja would be taken to his house at Kalmadi at 7 am with tight police security. The police force has already checked the entire house and inspected it and provided tight police security around the house. Raja was allowed to stay only with his mother from morning to evening. No others would be allowed inside the house. The police would bring him back to the city police station in the evening and keep him till July 10 morning. Later, he would be subjected to medical check-up at the district government hospital and taken to the Belagavi jail, sources said.
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Karnataka Guv writes to CM, Speaker to revoke suspension of 18 BJP MLAs from Assembly
Bengaluru, Apr 29 (PTI): Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot has written to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Speaker U T Khader, to positively consider the request to revoke the suspension of 18 BJP members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs), and to take necessary steps in this regard.
In separate letters addressed to the Chief Minister and the Speaker, the Governor expressed his "desire" that they take such a decision in order to uphold the basic tenets of democratic values in the State and to enable the suspended MLAs to resume their responsibilities as representatives of the people.
A BJP delegation, led by state party president B Y Vijayendra and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly R Ashoka, had met the Governor at Raj Bhavan on Monday and submitted a memorandum seeking revocation of the suspensions. They termed the move “undemocratic and unconstitutional.”
They urged the Governor to direct the Speaker to reconsider the suspension and allow the MLAs to fulfill their duties as elected representatives.
In an unprecedented move on March 21, 18 BJP MLAs were suspended for six months for showing “indiscipline” and “disrespecting” the Speaker.
They were forcefully evicted from the Assembly by marshals after refusing to leave.
The Governor, citing the memorandum submitted by the BJP legislative party leaders from both the Assembly and the Council, stated in his letter that they had requested him to forward their representation to the Speaker and the state government to reconsider the suspension order imposed on the 18 MLAs, who belong to the principal opposition party.
"In view of the above, to uphold the basic tenets of democratic values in the State of Karnataka and to enable the suspended Members to resume their responsibilities as people’s representatives, I desire that their request be considered positively, and necessary steps be taken to revoke the suspension," the Governor’s letter dated April 28 stated.
"Further, details of the action taken may be brought to my notice," Gehlot added.
The incident leading to the suspension occurred on the last day of the Assembly’s budget session, when BJP MLAs staged a massive protest. They were opposing the 4 per cent reservation for Muslims in public contracts and demanding a judicial probe into an alleged “honey-trap” attempt involving Cooperation Minister K N Rajanna.
During the protest inside the Assembly, some BJP legislators climbed onto the Speaker’s podium and surrounded his chair, while others hurled papers from the well of the House. Marshals had to intervene and forcibly evict the legislators.
The suspended MLAs include BJP chief whip Doddanagouda Patil, former Deputy CM C N Ashwath Narayan, S R Vishwanath, B A Basavaraju, M R Patil, Channabasappa, B Suresh Gowda, Umanath Kotyan, Sharanu Salagar, Dr Shailendra Beldale, C K Ramamurthy, Yashpal Suvarna, B P Harish, Bharath Shetty, Dheeraj Muniraju, Chandru Lamani, Muniratna, and Basavaraj Mattimud.
