St. Gerosa School incident: FIR filed against BJP MLAs for forcing students to chant Jai Shri Ram
Mangaluru: An FIR has been registered against two Karnataka BJP legislators, Vedavyas Kamath and Y Bharath Shetty, along with three others, for their alleged involvement in inciting and forcing students to chant religious slogans at St Gerosa English Higher Primary School in Mangaluru.
According to the school management, Kamath led a protest in front of the school without seeking clarification from them, during which students were reportedly compelled to chant religious slogans including Jai Shri Ram.
The FIR also names two corporators, Sandeep Garodi and Bharath Kumar, and Bajrang Dal leader Sharan Pumpwell in connection with the incident. The accused are alleged to have incited people and engaged in protests that included directing slogans against Christianity, potentially instigating enmity between religious communities.
Due to the sensitive nature of communal issues in Dakshina Kannada, where Mangaluru is located, such actions could have led to law and order problems, prompting the filing of the FIR, the police said. The case has been registered under sections 143, 153A, 295A, 505(2), 506, and 149 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
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Drug peddler's property worth Rs 1 crore attached in Srinagar
Srinagar (PTI): Property worth Rs 1 crore belonging to a notorious drug peddler was on Saturday attached in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar, police said.
A double-storey house on eight marlas of land situated at Wantpora Eidgah, belonging to Basit Bilal Dar, a notorious drug peddler, valued at approximately Rs 1 crore, a police spokesperson said.
He said Dar is involved in two cases registered under various sections of the NDPS Act.
During investigation, it was established that the accused had acquired the said property through illicit proceeds generated from drug trafficking activities, the spokesperson said.
Consequently, the property was attached under the provisions of the NDPS Act. The attachment proceedings were conducted in the presence of the two independent witnesses, strictly in accordance with the prescribed legal procedures, he said.
As per the attachment order, the owner has been restrained from selling, leasing, transferring, altering, or creating any third-party interest in the property till further orders, the spokesperson added.
