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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'Engineered narratives': West Bengal guv on alleged molestation charges against him
Kolkata, May 2: West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Thursday said he will not be cowed down by “engineered narratives” and the "truth shall triumph” after TMC leaders claimed that a woman working at Raj Bhavan levelled allegations of molestation against him.
In a statement, the Governor said, “Truth shall triumph. I refuse to be cowed down by engineered narratives. If anybody wants some election benefits by maligning me, God bless them. But they cannot stop my fight against corruption and violence in Bengal,”
To the Raj Bhavan staff "who expressed solidarity with him following some derogatory narratives that were circulated by two disgruntled employees as agents of political parties," a communication by Raj Bhawan said.
The Governor’s statement came after senior TMC leaders claimed this evening in a series of social media posts that the woman, who had levelled the allegations, has been taken to a police station to complain against Bose.
Though police sources said they received a verbal complaint, there was no official word on whether a formal complaint had been registered.
“BIG. Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose was accused of molesting a woman. How utterly appalling and Horrifying. Ahead of @narendramodi visit to Kolkata who is supposed to stay overnight at Raj Bhavan, a woman has alleged that she was molested while she went to meet the Governor at Raj Bhavan today. The complainant has been taken to the Hare Street police station for filing a complaint. The woman has accused the Governor of molesting her. Shocking and disgraceful,” TMC Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose said in a post on X.
Fellow TMC MP Saket Gokhale also posted on his X account regarding the issue.
West Bengal Women and Child Development Minister Shashi Panja said it is “shameful” that the Governor has maligned his post and has used it to “torture a woman”.
“It is appalling and shocking to see such an incident. This is the same Governor who had reached out to Sandeshkhali to talk about women’s rights and Nari Shakti. This is shameful that the Governor sought undue advantages in the pretext of giving her a permanent job. We want Prime Minister Narendra Modi who will be addressing rallies in Bengal tomorrow to react on this issue,” she said.
According to sources in the Governor's House, the "woman employee with the help of her alleged boyfriend who is also an employee of the Raj Bhavan was blocking complaints (from people) being sent to the Election Commission of India.
"When she was reprimanded for that, she went outside and alleged molestation. She is in the habit of throwing tantrums against her colleagues because of some disease," a Raj Bhavan official said.
The West Bengal Governor and the TMC government have shared an acrimonious relationship since he assumed office in November 2022 and had several run-ins on various issues.
The BJP said it has to be seen whether this a “conspiracy by the TMC” or has an “iota of truth in it”.
“We all know that the TMC is politically cornered on the issue of SSC scam and is looking for a breathing space. So this needs to be seen whether this is a conspiracy by the TMC or it has any iota of truth in it,” BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari said.
BIG. Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose accused of molesting a woman. How utterly APPALLING and HORRIFYING. Ahead of @narendramodi visit to Kolkata who is supposed to stay overnight at Raj Bhavan, a woman has alleged that she was molested while she went to meet the Governor at Raj…
— Sagarika Ghose (@sagarikaghose) May 2, 2024
Shameful that a constitutional office holder should try to prejudice an impartial investigation by attacking the motive of the complainant. We have seen this happen in that infamous Saturday Hearing of the Supreme Court. Respect women! https://t.co/E6eJLQvFXO
— sanjoy ghose (@advsanjoy) May 2, 2024
