Mangaluru: Pumpwell flyover construction nears end; expected to be inaugurated on January 31
Mangaluru: The construction work of Pumpwell flyover, which over the last few months had become a meme content due to its delayed construction process has finally been completed and it expected to be inaugurated for general traffic movement on January 31.
The flyover has been under construction for over last ten years and has missed several deadlines of inauguration given by Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel in the last couple of years. In December last year Nalin Kumar Kateel had strictly instructed the tendered company Navyug to complete the construction by the end of January 2020 under the supervision of Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh.
600 long and 20 meters wide, the construction for the pumpwell flyover began in 2010 and did not take up pace for first six years. And in last few years missed several deadlines of completion. Last year in November MP Nalin Kumar Kateel asserted that the flyover will be inaugurated on January 1, calling for trolls and memes on social media.
In the last couple of months the construction work was fastened after it was halted during monsoon.
MP Nalin Kumar Kateel on Wednesday along with MLA Vedavyas Kamath visited and inspected the flyover. He was accompanied by MCC Councillor Sudheer Kumar Shetty, Santosh Kumar Rai and others during the visit.
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Amit Shah deepfake video: Case registered against Maharashtra Youth Cong's social media handle
Mumbai(PTI): The Mumbai police have registered a case against the Maharashtra Youth Congress' social media handle and 16 others for allegedly sharing a deepfake video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, officials said on Tuesday.
In the fake video, BJP leader Shah was purportedly seen announcing the curtailment of reservation rights of the SCs, STs and OBCs.
A complaint in this connection was filed by Mumbai BJP functionary Pratik Karpe at the Bandra Kurla Complex cyber police station on Monday, an official said.
According to the complainant, the deepfake video of Shah was created, published and widely propagated on the internet, and shared by the accused with a malafide intent to defame the Union minister.
As per the complaint, the video deceitfully portrays Shah announcing the curtailment of the reservation rights granted to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes.
However, the original video, from where the deepfake video has been created, has completely different wordings and connotations, said the complainant.
In his original speech, Shah had said that if the BJP comes to power, they will finish the unconstitutional Muslim reservation and this right will be given to the SCs, STs and OBCs of Telangana, as per the complainant.
The accused persons made a deepfake video of the speech and circulated it widely on various social media platforms, Karpe claimed.
The complainant also requested police to take down the deepfake video immediately and register a case against the accused persons, who shared it for allegedly causing disruption, enmity and hatred in different castes.
Based on the complaint, the case has been registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act at the BKC cyber police station against the social media handle of Maharashtra Youth Congress and 16 others, who had allegedly shared the deepfake video on various social media platforms, the official said.
A probe is underway into the case, he said.
Deepfake videos are the ones which have been altered, in a convincing way, to misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that was not actually done or said.
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