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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V.D. Satheesan elected as new Chief Minister of Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): Celebrations erupted across Kerala on Thursday after V D Satheesan was selected by the Congress High Command as the next Chief Minister of the state.
Satheesan was at the Contonment House in Thiruvananthapuram, the official residence of the Leader of the Opposition, when AICC leaders announced it in New Delhi.
Soon after the announcement, jubilant Satheesan supporters burst firecrackers and distributed sweets in several parts of the state.
Paravur in Ernakulam district, the Assembly constituency he has represented since 2001, witnessed large-scale celebrations.
Satheesan was widely seen as the frontrunner for the post, with UDF allies also backing his candidature during the selection process.
As the Leader of the Opposition in the outgoing Assembly, he led the UDF both inside and outside the House.
Apart from Satheesan, senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala and Congress MP K C Venugopal were also considered for the post.
