DK BJP condemns JDS workers' attack on BJP MLA Preetam Gowda
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada District BJP on Thursday staged protest outside Deputy Commissioner’s office and condemned the attack on the party’s Hassan MLA Pradeep J Gowda by JDS workers.
Local party leaders, members and workers gathered outside Dakshina Kannada DC office and protested while also shouting slogans against CM HD Kumaraswamy and former Prime Minister HD Devegowda, alleging that the father son duo was the perpetrator of the attack.
“Kumaraswamy, claims that he did not had any interference in the whole episode, but he himself along with his father and brother Revanna perpetrated the whole attack. As Preetam won from a constituency which was dominated by this Gowda family, out of jealousy this attack was done” Ravi Shankar Mijar, Dakshina Kannada’s Vice President said during the protest.
Sanjay Prabhu, Dakshina Kannada Treasurer of BJP, termed the Kumaraswamy led government as the ‘Goondagiri government’. He said “Kumaraswamy ordered this rioting by his party workers. He wants everyone from his family to either be a MLA or an MP, now that his son and Revanna’s son are in-line they are looking for a constituency from where they can field them, and hence they have targeted Hassan, and to instill fear in our MLAs mind this attack was done”.
“This is nothing new, the father and sons have done, they have a factual history of doing such things in the past, so we are not really surprised, but then again, we are not going to back away, we will fight them and defeat them”.
“If he says he had no knowledge about the incident or he hadn’t ordered it, then he should immediately resign from his post, accepting the moral responsibility for the actions of his party workers” Sanjay said.
He further added “If the state has to progress, then this government has to go, and for the betterment of this state, this government will be toppling soon”.
Ex-MLC Monappa Gonda, while addressing the protest, expressed the district BJP’s solidarity with Preetam Gowda and the party worker Rahul who sustained injuries during the JDS workers’ attack on the MLA home, and has been hospitalized since.
“The police are hand-in-glove with the CM and his family, no action can be taken against the party workers, no case will be registered and no arrests will be made in this regard, we know this. Preetam’s family was inside the house, the workers posed threat to their life, yet nobody cares” he said.
About the incident:
JDS workers who planned a protest outside the MLA Preetam’s house, after his audio speaking ill of HD Deve Gowda and his family including Kumaraswamy, was made public.
The workers, who had staged dharna outside MLAs house, anguished over the incident, stormed towards his house and started pelting stones which resulted in one BJP worker sustaining injuries who was later hospitalized.
BS Yeddiyurappa and other leaders rushed to Hassan to meet the injured worker, party has since organized protests in various parts of the state.
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Traffic fraud: Fake 'no-entry' sticker racket busted in Delhi, mastermind among 3 held
New Delhi (PTI): Police here have busted a crime syndicate involved in traffic fraud and extortion, arresting three people including the alleged mastermind who sold fake stickers to help commercial vehicles bypass no-entry restrictions, an official said on Saturday.
The police said they dismantled a third organised syndicate linked to traffic-related frauds, with the arrest of Rinku Rana alias Bhushan, his associate Sonu Sharma and Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, who was also connected to another extortion syndicate.
According to the police, Rinku Rana was running a well-organised network that facilitated the movement of commercial goods vehicles during restricted hours by selling fake 'marka' or stickers for Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 per vehicle every month. The stickers were falsely projected as authorisation to evade traffic challans.
During raids, the police recovered Rs 31 lakh in cash, property documents worth several crores of rupees, over 500 fake stickers and six mobile phones allegedly used to operate the syndicate.
The crackdown followed a complaint filed by a traffic police officer in April this year after a commercial vehicle tried to evade checking by producing a fake sticker claiming exemption from enforcement action.
Investigation revealed that social media groups were being used to coordinate the illegal movement of vehicles and alert drivers about traffic police checkpoints, police said.
"A parallel system was being run to cheat drivers and vehicle owners while undermining traffic enforcement. On the basis of evidence, provisions related to organised crime under the BNS were invoked," a senior police officer said.
Sonu Sharma, the police said, managed social media groups through which stickers were sold and real-time alerts were circulated regarding traffic police movement. He also acted as a link between Rana and drivers operating in the field.
In a related development, Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, an associate of Rajkumar alias Raju Meena, who was earlier arrested under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), was also apprehended.
Mukesh allegedly helped extort money from transporters and was involved in blackmailing traffic police personnel by recording enforcement actions, the police said.
Investigators alleged the syndicate led by Rajkumar deployed drivers to deliberately violate traffic rules and secretly record police officials during challans, later using manipulated videos to extort money under threat of false allegations.
The police said that in total, eight accused belonging to three different organised crime syndicates linked to traffic frauds and extortion have been arrested so far.
Further investigation is underway to trace the remaining members, conduct financial probes, and analyse digital evidence recovered during the raids, officials added.
