Plot to kill rationalist Prof Narendra Nayak?
Complaint lodged against stranger
Mangaluru, June 14: Mangaluru-based rationalist and Rationalists Association national president Prof Narendra Nayak lodged a complaint against hatching out a plot for the third time to kill him after the murder of rationalist Prof MM Kalburgi and journalist Gauri Lankesh.
Prof Nayak said that he has lodged the complaint following a suspicious movement of a stranger before his flat and previous incidents. On June 12, a stranger came to the flat where Prof Nayak is living and said he would require a labourer to his teacher. Suspecting his attitude and movement, when the flat watchman asked him, he fled the scene, it is said.
Speaking to Varthabharati, Prof Nayak said that the stranger came to his flat on Tuesday. Because of his suspicious attitude, flat watchman asked him. But he left the place without giving any answer. When this incident happened, he was in Tamil Nadu and he has reached Mangaluru on Thursday. Now, he has given a complaint against this incident to Urva police station, he said.
In last March and November, murder attempt was made against Prof Nayak and even he had received a threatening call. But the purpose of the stranger is not yet known. But he has given the complaint based on the previous attempts, he said.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
