BJP people belong to family of those who killed Gandhi: Siddaramaiah
Bengaluru, Nov 30: Former chief minister Siddaramaiah lashed out at the BJP leaders saying that they have been speaking against cow slaughter and protecting cows despite they hailed from the clan of those who killed Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi.
Speaking at a workshop on ‘Constitution’ held at the KPCC office here on Friday, Siddaramaiah said that those who speak about cow protection have not cleaned the cow dung or the waste once in their lifetime. “I have cleaned the cow dung, cleaned the cowshed. Did upper class people clean the cow dung once?” When asked KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao and vice president BL Shankar present on the stage whether they have cleaned the dung or not, they said no.
Union Minister Ananth Kumar Hegde issued a statement on changing the Constitution. But both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah have not taken any action against him, which means they were also supporting his stand of changing the Constitution. He does not know whether BJP state president Yeddyurappa has read the Constitution or not. He might have read the Constitution for his selfish motive. BJP people have been opposing the Constitution right from the first day and they could not protect the Constitution, he said.
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Traffic fraud: Fake 'no-entry' sticker racket busted in Delhi, mastermind among 3 held
New Delhi (PTI): Police here have busted a crime syndicate involved in traffic fraud and extortion, arresting three people including the alleged mastermind who sold fake stickers to help commercial vehicles bypass no-entry restrictions, an official said on Saturday.
The police said they dismantled a third organised syndicate linked to traffic-related frauds, with the arrest of Rinku Rana alias Bhushan, his associate Sonu Sharma and Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, who was also connected to another extortion syndicate.
According to the police, Rinku Rana was running a well-organised network that facilitated the movement of commercial goods vehicles during restricted hours by selling fake 'marka' or stickers for Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 per vehicle every month. The stickers were falsely projected as authorisation to evade traffic challans.
During raids, the police recovered Rs 31 lakh in cash, property documents worth several crores of rupees, over 500 fake stickers and six mobile phones allegedly used to operate the syndicate.
The crackdown followed a complaint filed by a traffic police officer in April this year after a commercial vehicle tried to evade checking by producing a fake sticker claiming exemption from enforcement action.
Investigation revealed that social media groups were being used to coordinate the illegal movement of vehicles and alert drivers about traffic police checkpoints, police said.
"A parallel system was being run to cheat drivers and vehicle owners while undermining traffic enforcement. On the basis of evidence, provisions related to organised crime under the BNS were invoked," a senior police officer said.
Sonu Sharma, the police said, managed social media groups through which stickers were sold and real-time alerts were circulated regarding traffic police movement. He also acted as a link between Rana and drivers operating in the field.
In a related development, Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, an associate of Rajkumar alias Raju Meena, who was earlier arrested under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), was also apprehended.
Mukesh allegedly helped extort money from transporters and was involved in blackmailing traffic police personnel by recording enforcement actions, the police said.
Investigators alleged the syndicate led by Rajkumar deployed drivers to deliberately violate traffic rules and secretly record police officials during challans, later using manipulated videos to extort money under threat of false allegations.
The police said that in total, eight accused belonging to three different organised crime syndicates linked to traffic frauds and extortion have been arrested so far.
Further investigation is underway to trace the remaining members, conduct financial probes, and analyse digital evidence recovered during the raids, officials added.
