More than 1200 police personnel deployed in Mangaluru City as precautionary measure: Top-cop
Hijab verdict
Mangaluru: In the background of the Karnataka High Court’s verdict on the permissibility of wearing a Hijab in classrooms, more than 1200 police personnel have been deployed in the jurisdiction of the Mangaluru City Commissionerate as a precautionary measure, Commissioner N. Shashikumar informed.
After issuing directions to the police officials and staff regarding the deployment at Circuit House in the city, the commissioner spoke to the press.
“Senior Officials have advised regarding the precautionary measures through a video conference yesterday. Mangaluru Commissionerate holds a strength of more than 2000 police officers and staff”, he said.
“Since 9 am, more than 1200 police personnel have been busy with the deployment arrangement. The District Commissioner has already pronounced holidays for schools and colleges in the district. A prohibitory order has also been imposed amid this. Earlier, during the Covid, Hijab-Saffron shawls cases, the people and organizations of Mangaluru had cooperated in ensuring peace, law, and order in the city”, he said.
DCP Dinesh Kumar, ACPs P. A Hegde, and others were present.
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Sharad Pawar discharged from Pune hospital; advised rest for few days
Pune (PTI): NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar, admitted to a hospital here with dehydration, was discharged on Wednesday morning, with doctors saying he is doing fine.
The 85-year-old Rajya Sabha member was admitted to the Ruby Hall Clinic in Pune on Sunday following complaints of dehydration.
"He is doing well. He has been given discharge, and he has already left for Mumbai. He has been advised to take rest for the next couple of days before resuming his normal routine," said Dr Purvez Grant, the chief cardiologist, chairman and managing trustee of the private hospital.
Earlier, the former Union minister was admitted to the same hospital on February 9 following a chest infection and was discharged on February 14.
