Man held in Mangaluru for threatening, assault of businessman
Mangaluru: City Police have arrested a man from Belthangady who had assaulted and issued a death threat to a businessman from the city.
The Bunder Police officers arrested Dinesh Shetty (55) on charge of threatening the owner of a fire cracker store recently.
The arrested Shetty had called Muralidhar Pai, who owns a store in Bunder, asking for fire crackers worth Rs 5 lakh. He had also asked Pai to get the crackers to a hotel. Since Pai refused, Shetty, along with four accomplices, visited Pai’s store and threatened to kill the store owner if the latter refused to give him the fire crackers as demanded.
Shetty and his friends are accused in the police complaint of assaulting Pai before leaving the store.
Shetty had been an accomplice of the absconding criminal Ravi Poojary. He was involved in several criminal activities, including murder, in coastal Karnataka.
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Waqf Bill anti-secular, will snatch rights of Muslims: Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday described the Waqf (Amendment) Bill as “anti-secular”, claiming that it would snatch the rights of Muslims.
Banerjee, speaking in the assembly, also said the Centre did not consult with states over the matter.
“The bill is anti-federal and anti-secular; it is a deliberate attempt to malign a particular section. It will snatch the rights of Muslims... The Centre did not consult with us on the Waqf Bill,” she said.
The chief minister added that “if any religion was attacked”, she would wholeheartedly condemn it.
Opposition parties have stridently criticised the amendments proposed by the bill in the existing Waqf Act, alleging that they violate the religious rights of Muslims.
The ruling BJP has asserted that the amendments will bring transparency in the functioning of the Waqf boards and make them accountable.
A parliamentary committee has been constituted to scrutinise the contentious bill.
