Mangaluru: Two including lecturers arrested for plastering defamatory posters on female colleague
Mangaluru: The Mangaluru city police have arrested three men including a college convener and two professors of a prestigious college in the district, for plastering a defamatory poster containing offensive writing against a female lecturer at a public place.
The arrested accused have been identified as Prakash Shenoy (44), a resident of Laaila at Belthangady Taluk, Pradeep Poojary (36), a resident of Ulirodi at Siddakatte Vegi, and Tharanath B. S. Shetty (32), a resident of Sitanadi at Hebri Taluk in Udupi. While one of the accused was a college convener, the other two were working lecturers in the college, it is learned.
Reportedly, amid an ongoing conflict over the appointment of lecturers in the college and matters of administration at a prestigious college at Bantwal in D.K. District, a female lecturer of the college was being targeted by the accused who indulged in producing offensive letters, defamatory posters against her and sending them via post to her lecturer colleagues, college head, and the top-level officials in the education department to defame her. The victim had registered a complaint against the accused for defamation, issuing threats to her life, and inflicting psychological abuse on her, at the Mangaluru women’s police station. The police have arrested the accused in this regard.
In the beginning, the accused male college convener and the two male lecturers had joined together and distributed defamatory writings against the female lecturer through postcards, inland letter attached with the victimized lecturer’s photo to her fellow lecturer colleagues, college head, and the top-level officials in the education department via the post. After that, the accused publicized the victim’s mobile number and email-id by creating obscene posters attached with this information and plastered them at various bus stand toilets at Sulya, Subramanya, Smapaje, Madikeri, Mysuru, Chikmagalur, Mudigere, Balehonnur, N. R. Pura and Shimoga. Following this the victim had started receiving obscene phone calls from members of the public, causing her much mental anguish and psychological abuse. Notably, among the accused, Pradeep Poojary has an existing case from the year 2019 that was registered against him for attempting to slander a female lecturer, it is learned.
Reportedly, there are many others involved in the current case, and the police are in the process of identifying them. The police have seized 3 mobile phones from the accused, the police informed.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
