Bengaluru Police prohibit Ganesha festival processions, dances following violent incidents
Bengaluru: In the wake of several violent incidents, including a murder, the Bengaluru Police Department has decided to ban all Ganesha idol processions and DJ dances in the city.
The order was issued by the city's Police Commissioner, B Dayananda, after reports of clashes, riots, and violent episodes in various areas of the Karnataka capital, including Halasur, Yediyur, and Adugodi, surfaced.
The police commissioner warned that the respective police station inspectors would be held responsible if any Ganesha idol processions or marches were conducted despite the ban. The decision follows a incident where a man, identified as Srinivas, was stabbed to death during a procession after an altercation over dance in Bengaluru's Adugodi area. Additionally, a goat was killed during a separate Ganesha idol procession, raising concerns about the escalating violence.
As a precautionary measure, authorities have also decided not to permit the installation of Ganesha idols in public places, even though the festival has concluded. The police have received numerous letters requesting permission for processions, and approximately 450 Ganesha idols have already been installed across the city. Over 200 individuals have written letters requesting the police to allow further celebrations, but officials remain firm on the ban, emphasizing public safety and the prevention of further violent incidents.
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Allahabad HC sets aside maintenance order in favour of earning wife, says she didn't tell truth
Prayagraj (PTI): The Allahabad High Court has set aside a lower court order mandating a man to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, observing that she earns her living and did not reveal the true salary in her affidavit.
Justice Madan Pal Singh also allowed a criminal revision petition filed by the man, Ankit Saha.
"A perusal of the impugned judgment indicates that in the affidavit filed before the trial court, the opposite party herself admitted that she is a post-graduate and a web designer by qualification. She is working as a senior sales coordinator in a company and getting a salary of Rs 34,000 per month," the court said in the December 3 order.
"But in her cross-examination, she has admitted that she was earning Rs 36,000 per month. Such an amount for a wife who has no other liability cannot be said to be meagre; whereas the man has the responsibility of maintaining his aged parents and other social obligations," it observed.
The high court observed that the woman was not entitled to get any maintenance from her husband "as she is an earning lady and able to maintain herself".
The man's counsel argued in court that the estranged wife did not reveal the whole truth in the affidavit.
"She claimed herself to be an illiterate and unemployed woman. When the document filed by the man was shown to her before the trial court, she admitted her income during cross-examination. Thus, it is clear that she did not come before the trial court with clean hands," the counsel submitted.
The court, in its order, said, "Cases of those litigants who have no regard for the truth and those who indulge in suppressing material facts need to be thrown out of the court."
It impugned the lower court's February 17 judgment and order, passed by the principal judge of a family court in Gautam Buddh Nagar and allowed the criminal revision petition filed by the man.
