Bengaluru police to challenge bail granted to actor Darshan in SC
Bengaluru (PTI): Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda on Tuesday said that an appeal will be filed in the Supreme Court soon challenging the interim bail granted to Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa, who is an accused in the Renukaswamy murder case.
The 47-year-old had walked out of Ballari jail on October 30 after being imprisoned for more than four months, hours after the Karnataka High Court gave him relief for six weeks on medical grounds, to undergo spine surgery.
"The process is on and at the earliest we will file an appeal in the Supreme Court," Dayananda told reporters in response to a question.
Darshan was arrested on June 11. His friend Pavithra Gowda and 15 others are co-accused in the case.
Pavithra is lodged in Bengaluru prison, and others in various jails of the state; some of them had recently got bail.
According to police, 33-year-old Renukaswamy, a fan of the actor, had sent obscene messages to Pavithra, which enraged Darshan, allegedly leading to his murder. His body was found near a storm water drain next to an apartment in Sumanahalli here on June nine.
Raghavendra, one of the accused who is part of Darshan's fan club in Chitradurga, had brought Renukaswamy to a shed in R R Nagar here, on the pretext that the actor wanted to meet him. It was in this shed that he was allegedly tortured and murdered.
According to the post-mortem report, Renukaswamy, a native of Chitradurga, died due to shock and hemorrhage as a result of multiple blunt injuries.
Police have said Pavithra, who is accused number one, was the "major cause" for Renukaswamy’s murder, claiming that it has been proved from the probe that she instigated other accused, conspired with them, and took part in the crime.
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LIC website reduced to propaganda tool for Hindi imposition, says TN CM
Chennai, Nov 19: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday took strong exception to the use of Hindi language on the website of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India, and said that the website has been reduced to a propaganda tool for imposing Hindi.
Posting a screenshot of the LIC of India webpage containing Hindi, the chief minister said in a post on social media platform 'X': "the LIC website has been reduced to a propaganda tool for Hindi imposition. Even the option to select English is displayed in Hindi!"
This, he claimed, was nothing but cultural and language imposition by force, trampling on India's diversity.
"LIC grew with the patronage of all Indians. How dare it betray the majority of its contributors? We demand an immediate rollback of this linguistic tyranny. #StopHindiImposition," the chief minister said in the post.
Terming the move as a "blatant imposition" of Hindi on other language-speaking people, BJP's ally and PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss, said this attempt by LIC is highly condemnable as it was trying to "push" a language among the non-Hindi speaking people.
"Giving sudden priority to Hindi alone is not acceptable as the LIC has a customer base drawn from the people from diverse languages in India," Dr Ramadoss said in a post on 'X'.
He reminded that both the Centre and other institutions under the control of the union government belonged to all sections of the people and not just to the Hindi-speaking population.
"Hence, the home page of LIC of India should immediately be changed to English and a Tamil version website should be started," he said.
AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami flayed the LIC for making it all Hindi and said the revamped website was currently unusable for people who did not know that language.
"The language change option on the website is also in Hindi and is not possible to find it. It is reprehensible that the central government is going to any extent in imposing Hindi," he said on 'X'.
It was not acceptable to impose a language in India, a country of diverse languages, cultures, and politics. Hence, the Centre should change the default language of the website to English for all people to use and desist from taking further action to thrust Hindi, the former chief minister said.
Strongly condemning the Centre, TNCC chief K Selvaperunthagai, called upon the Centre to immediately abandon all activities aimed at imposing the language on non-Hindi speaking states.
The LIC website has been reduced to a propaganda tool for Hindi imposition. Even the option to select English is displayed in Hindi!
— M.K.Stalin (@mkstalin) November 19, 2024
This is nothing but cultural and language imposition by force, trampling on India's diversity. LIC grew with the patronage of all Indians. How… pic.twitter.com/BxHzj28aaX
