Mithun Rai, B K Hariprasad forerunners for Congress ticket from Dakshina Kannada
Official announcement likely on Saturday afternoon
New Delhi: In the latest development for the ticket distribution in Dakshina Kannada constituency two names have emerged in the Congress camp who are most likely to get the ticket to contest against BJP’s Nalin Kumar Kateel.
On Friday, state party leaders and ticket aspirants held a meeting in New Delhi at the residence of AICC General Secretary and Congress’ Karnataka In-Charge KC Venugopal.
During the meeting, it was decided that the Mithun Rai will contest the LS election on Congress ticket from the constituency.
However, the latest reports from Delhi add senior Congress leader and another aspirant for the ticket B K Hariprasad met Sonia Gandhi in the national capital seeking ticket from the constituency.
The reports further adds that after his meeting with Sonia Gandhi, B K Hariprasad is once again into the race for the ticket and anyone between Mithun Rai and B K Hariprasad will get the party’s nod.
The official announcement of the candidate is expected to come out on Saturday afternoon.
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Indian-origin doc who drove Tesla off cliff with family inside experienced ‘psychotic’ break: Report
Los Angeles, Apr 28: An Indian-origin radiologist who drove his Tesla off a cliff in the US with his wife and children inside allegedly suffered from major depressive disorder and was experiencing a psychotic break at the time of the incident, media reports quoted two doctors testifying at a recent hearing.
Dharmesh Patel from Pasadena, California was charged in January last year with three counts of attempted murder after he drove the family’s Tesla off the cliff at Devil’s Slide on Highway 1 near Half Moon Bay, according to prosecutors.
Patel, his wife, Neha, and their children — a 7-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy at the time — miraculously survived.
Patel, 43, was experiencing hallucinations, hearing footsteps and believed his children had been sex trafficked, two doctors testified at a hearing on Wednesday in Redwood City.
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Wednesday’s hearing was a response to an earlier request from Patel who is seeking a mental health diversion in his case, the New York Post newspaper reported.
If a judge grants the doctors' request, Patel would be placed on a two-year treatment plan instead of receiving jail time.
Patel’s charges would be dropped if he doesn’t commit any crimes during the proposed treatment plan.
At the time of the crash, the doctors testified, Patel was experiencing a psychotic episode in which he believed that his children might be sex trafficked, Los Angeles Times newspaper quoted District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe as saying.
Doctors -- Mark Patterson and James Armontrout -- testified for the defence.
If Patel is placed in the mental diversion program, James Armontrout, a Stanford psychiatric clinician, will oversee the treatment.
“I see him as someone who is very motivated and amenable to treatment,” psychologist Mark Patterson testified at the hearing.
Patterson’s diagnosis of Patel came after a series of 18 tests were conducted and he spoke with the doctor and his siblings.
Prosecutors oppose diversion in the case, arguing that the prosecution’s doctor found Patel is not suffering from a major depressive disorder with a psychotic feature, but from a different disorder, known as schizoaffective, and that the defence’s proposed treatment plan will not be effective.
Prosecutors believe the case should remain in court.
Wagstaffe worried that if Patel is released he will not be monitored except in his meetings with doctors.
“If he goes off his medication, how do you know? It’s not like being on probation or parole. It’s purely the visits with the psychiatrist,” he said.
Patel’s attorney, Joshua Bentley, did not respond to a request for comment, the report said.
