Fake News Alert : DK SP issues clarification over news of Hindu Activist assaulted in Puttur
Puttur: The Dakshina Kannada SP has issued a clarification that there is no truth in several posts on social media that claim that an activist in support of the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya has been attacked by the followers of political leader Arun Kumar Puthila.
A case and a counter-case have been filed at the Puttur Rural Police Station by the parties from Munduru involved in the fight and the officers are investigating the issue. Citizens are requested not to pay heed to false information on any matter, the SP has urged.
Real Incident
The Puttur Rural Police have filed two separate cases in relation to a fight over property in Munduru village of the taluk on Sunday night. The fight resulted in the physical assault of members of rival parties and four people, including two women. The injured are currently being treated in a private hospital in Puttur.
The injured persons are identified as Keshava Naik (35), his mother Jayanthi (55) who belonged to one of the two groups involved and Santhosh BK (29) and his mother Savitha (50), from their rival group.
Santhosh complained to the police that, on Sunday night as he was walking home from his garden after parking his scooter near his garden, the accused Keshava, Dhananjaya and Jagadish stopped him on the way and assaulted him physically.
Hearing the furor, Santhosh's mother Savitha came out of the house but Keshava assaulted and also threatened her. The attackers took away Santhosh's mobile phone and wallet, which had Rs 25,000 cash, he told the police in the complaint filed.
Keshava Naik filed a counter complaint with the police, accusing Santhosh, his wife and a third person Sandeep of starting to pull down the wire fence that had been put up around his garden. When Naik questioned them, they verbally abused him and also gave him a death threat. In addition, Koragappa Naik and his wife Savitha, who had accompanied the trio, also abused him verbally. When Keshava Naik left for the police station with his cousin Dhananjaya to file a complaint against the destruction of the fence around his garden, Koragappa Naik and his son Santhosh attacked him physically, hitting him on the head. Keshava Naik's mother came to the spot on hearing the sound of a fight but was also attacked by Santhosh and his friends, Keshava Naik has said in the police complaint.
Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police CB Rishyanth, responding to the news of the police complaints by the rival parties, has requested readers not to fall for false information and fake news.
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41 lakh illicit liquor seized, 1.84 lakh arrested in major drive: K'taka Minister tells Assembly
Belagavi (Karnataka) (PTI): The Karnataka Excise Department has conducted a statewide crackdown on illegal liquor trade over the last two years, resulting in arrests and seizures of alcohol, Karnataka Excise Minister R B Timmapur said on Tuesday.
As many as 1,09,017 people were arrested, and seizures included 13.66 lakh litres of liquor and 27.19 lakh litres of beer, he said in a written reply to a starred question by Harihar BJP MLA B P Harish in the Karnataka Assembly.
The Minister said the enforcement drive covered the financial year 2023–24, 2024–25 up to June, and 2025–26 from July to October, targeting unauthorised liquor manufacture, storage, sale and transportation across the State.
"During this period, statewide enforcement drives resulted in a total of 1,84,570 raids against illegal liquor sales,” Timmapur said.
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He noted that 9,179 non-bailable cases and 91,968 bailable and compoundable cases under Section 15(A) of the Karnataka Excise Act, 1965, were registered during the same period.
According to him, there have been no reports indicating that students have become addicted to alcohol due to illegal liquor sales.
The sale of alcohol to minors is strictly prohibited under the Karnataka Excise Act, 1965, and the department has issued periodic instructions to initiate legal action against violators, with strict enforcement and investigation measures in place, the Minister said.
Excise officials are carrying out regular road and night patrols, collecting intelligence, monitoring habitual offenders and conducting raids to identify illicit distillation units, unauthorised liquor outlets and spurious liquor manufacturing centres, he said, adding the department is also enforcing the law to prevent the production, storage, sale and transport of spurious, non-duty-paid and unauthorised liquor.
Regular patrols are being conducted on national and state highways, with suspicious vehicles being subjected to checks.
At the district level, standing committee meetings are held under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioners, and joint operations are carried out with the police and forest departments to curb excise-related offences.
The department is also conducting awareness programmes through Gram Sabhas and in schools and colleges to educate the public and students about the physical, mental and social health hazards associated with alcohol addiction and substance abuse, Timmapur added.
