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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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
— Bareilly Police (@bareillypolice) November 24, 2024
