ACB conducts State-wide Raids in 28 places on Tuesday: Homes, Offices of 9 Officers under scrutiny
Bengaluru: In a series of raids that began on Tuesday morning, under the supervision of Range SPs, ACB conducted a state-wide crackdown related to possession of disproportionate assets in 28 places against 9 officers in 11 districts by several teams of ACB officers and staff.
In the raid that began early Tuesday morning, ACB revealed that they were investigating the legality of the paperwork recovered from the homes and offices of the accused officers.
The raids were carried out at Bengaluru, Mysuru, Davangere, Belagavi, Chikkaballapura, Yadagiri, Kolar, Udupi, Mandya, Karwar, and Kanakpur.
List of Officers under Scrutiny
1. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. Central range, IPS Kala Krishnamurthy conducted the raid against Krishnegowda, Project Director at Nirmitikendra in Chikkaballapur. The AGO'S house in Kolar taluk and Chikkaballapur, AGO'S office in Chikkaballapur, and AGO'S brother's house in Kolar taluk are being investigated.
2. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. Northern range, KSPS. Nemagowda carried a search against the Deputy Chief electrical inspector Hanamantha Shivappa Chikkannanavara of Belagavi circle. His flat at Channammanagar, Angola, Belagavi, his office at Belagavi circle, and his native place in Golambhavi village, Jamakhandi taluk, another flat in Shanthinatha Homes apartment, Kitturrani Chennammanagar at Belagavi was targeted by the ACB.
3. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. The southern range, KSPS. Bopaiah conducted the raid against Subramanya K Vaddar, the Joint director for the town and country planning at Mysore. His residence at Udupi, his mother's house at Karwar town, along with his rented house at Mysuru and office are under the ACB scrutiny.
4. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. The southern range, IPS. Arunangshu Giri carried a search against CHESCOM’s superintendent Engineer, Munigopal Raju. The superintendent engineer’s CHESCOM office in Kuvempunagar, Mysuru, his residence at Gokulum Mysuru, and his native place at Kanakpur town in Ramnagar are being searched by the ACB.
5. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. The southern range, IPS. Arunangshu Giri conducted the raid against Channaveerappa, FDA in the RTO office, Mysore south, Lakshmipurum. His residence at Kuvempunagar, native place at Halakere village in Mandya, and his RTO office at Lakshmipurum, Mysuru are being searched by the ACB.
6. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. North Eastern range, KSPS. Mahesh Meghannanavar conducted the raid against Raju Pattar, GESCOM’s Account officer at Yadagiri. His residence and office at Yadagiri are being searched.
7. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. Bengaluru City Division, IPS. Kuldeep Kumar R. Jain conducted the raid against BMTF Police Inspector Victor Simon and searched his residence at Kasavanahalli Bengaluru, while his father’s and father-in-law’s houses at Mysuru and BMTF office at Bengaluru were also included in the search.
8. Headed by SP. Bengaluru City Division, IPS. Kuldeep Kumar R. Jain, ACB conducted a raid against, Junior Engineer K Subramanyam, who is the Asst. Director at the BBMP’s Town Planning Office, for the Yelahanka Zone at Bengaluru City. His residence at Sahakaranagara and Town Planning office at Yelahanka, Bengaluru are under scrutiny.
9. Team of officers and staff headed by SP. Eastern Range, KSPS. Jaiprakash conducted a raid against Factories and Boilers’ Deputy Director K M Pratham of the Davangere Division. His Bengaluru residence at Nagashetti Halli, his brother's house at Sanjay Nagar, and office at Davangere are under the scrutiny of the ACB.
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Trump sues BBC for USD 10 billion, alleges defamation over edited Jan 6 speech
Washington (AP): President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking USD 10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.
The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump,” calling it “a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence” the 2024 US presidential election.
It accused the BBC of “splicing together two entirely separate parts of President Trump's speech on January 6, 2021” in order to ”intentionally misrepresent the meaning of what President Trump said.”
The lawsuit, filed in a Florida court, seeks USD 5 billion in damages for defamation and USD 5 billion for unfair trade practices.
The BBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
The broadcaster apologised last month to Trump over the edit of the Jan. 6 speech. But the publicly funded BBC rejected claims it had defamed him, after Trump threatened legal action.
BBC chairman Samir Shah had called it an “error of judgment,” which triggered the resignations of the BBC's top executive and its head of news.
The speech took place before some of Trump's supporters stormed the US Capitol as Congress was poised to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election that Trump falsely alleged was stolen from him.
The BBC had broadcast the hourlong documentary — titled “Trump: A Second Chance?” — days before the 2024 US presidential election. It spliced together three quotes from two sections of the 2021 speech, delivered almost an hour apart, into what appeared to be one quote in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and “fight like hell.” Among the parts cut out was a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.
Trump said earlier Monday that he was suing the BBC “for putting words in my mouth.”
“They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with Jan. 6 that I didn't say, and they're beautiful words that I said, right?" the president said unprompted during an appearance in the Oval Office. "They're beautiful words, talking about patriotism and all of the good things that I said. They didn't say that, but they used terrible words.”
The president's lawsuit was filed in Florida. Deadlines to bring the case in British courts expired more than a year ago.
Legal experts have brought up potential challenges to a case in the US, given that the documentary was not shown in the country.
The lawsuit alleges that people in the US can watch the BBC's original content, including the “Panorama” series, which includes the documentary, by using the subscription streaming platform BritBox or a virtual private network service.
The 103-year-old BBC is a national institution funded through an annual license fee of 174.50 pounds (USD 230) paid by every household that watches live TV or BBC content. Bound by the terms of its charter to be impartial, it typically faces especially intense scrutiny and criticism from both conservatives and liberals.
