Complaint filed with SIT over alleged illegal burial in Ujire
Beltangady: A complaint has been submitted to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) alleging that a group of individuals buried a dead body illegally in Ujire, Beltangady taluk. The complainant, Bhaskar Badakottu, claimed that although he had earlier approached the local police, no proper investigation was conducted into the matter.
According to SIT officials, the complaint has been received and will be examined. They stated that if the issue involves any criminal activity, the matter will be forwarded to the jurisdictional police station for further action.
The complaint mentions that a resident of Ujire village, Sompa alias Balakrishna Shetty, had gone missing and a report was filed on December 18, 2018. Around the same period, it was alleged that a dead body was discovered while cutting trees on government land at Billarodi, Ujire. The complaint further alleges that some people later buried the body at the same spot.
Though family members of the missing person were urged to file a complaint, they reportedly did not do so. Bhaskar Badakottu himself lodged a complaint with Beltangady police on December 8, 2018, naming suspects. Police did visit the spot, but the complainant alleges that the investigation was not pursued seriously due to pressure from certain quarters.
Since the missing person has not returned to date, the complaint now raises suspicion that the body of Sompa alias Balakrishna Shetty was illegally buried on government land by Mahesh Shetty Timarodi and others.
SIT has confirmed receiving the complaint and assured that necessary action will be taken as per law.
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Indigo flights chaos: SCR to run special trains to clear passenger rush
Hyderabad (PTI): The South Central Railway on Saturday announced that it would run four special trains to manage the surge in passengers resulting from the large-scale cancellation of IndiGo flights here.
The move comes as flyers face significant disruption and long queues at the airport due to the cancellation.
A press release from the SCR said it is running the special trains to clear the extra rush of passengers to Chennai, Mumbai and Shalimar (Kolkata) from Hyderabad today.
Meanwhile, as many as 43 outbound Indigo flights were cancelled from here on Saturday, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport sources said.
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Similarly, 26 incoming flights are also likely to be cancelled during the day, they said.
The flight cancellations drew ire from passengers, who thronged the IndiGo counters at the airport demanding to know the exact situation.
“This is utter nonsense! Digiyatra done, message received that departure has been rescheduled ahead of the scheduled departure and now upon arriving at Hyderabad airport coming to know at the security checkpoint that Indigo flight is cancelled,” Tarun Singha, former Ministry of Defence spokesperson said in a post on X.
“But the thing is if you don’t shout they do nothing. Example at Hyderabad Airport, there was no staff no flight information for an hour. Then a fellow passenger started shouting on mic and an Indigo staff appeared finally,” a netizen said in a post.
On Friday, when IndiGo cancelled over 1,000 flights from across airports, its CEO Pieter Elbers apologised in a video message for the major inconvenience caused to passengers due to the disruptions.
In the one-way video communication, Elbers also said that the airline was expecting fewer than 1,000 flights on Saturday.
