CM Siddaramaiah asks PM Modi to look at BJP Karnataka's 'disastrous legacy'
Bengaluru, Nov 1: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he should look at the 'disastrous' legacy of BJP Karnataka unit before pointing fingers at Congress.
He joined the war of words between the Congress and the BJP over Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's remark on poll guarantees at a party event.
"Mr. @narendramodi, before pointing fingers at Congress, take a hard look at @BJP4Karnataka's disastrous legacy in Karnataka! We are fulfilling every promise we made to our people all 5 guarantees implemented with a budget over Rs 52,000 crore, and an additional Rs 52,903 crore in capital outlay to build Karnataka's future," Siddaramaiah said in a post on 'X'.
He alleged that BJP left Karnataka plagued with 40 per cent commission corruption, draining resources that could have transformed lives.
"We're using that same 40 per cent'redirecting it to benefit the people. What was your 'achievement' here? Empowering corrupt practices, leaving Karnataka debt-ridden, and using propaganda to cover up your failures?" the Chief Minister sought to know.
He also hit out at Modi for his 'bad governance'.
"And let's not forget: under your watch, India's debt is projected to reach Rs 185.27 trillion by FY25'a staggering 56.8 % of GDP! This isn't just bad governance; it's a burden you're placing on every Indian's back," Siddaramaiah stated.
He said while Karnataka contributed significantly to the Union's coffers, the BJP government at the Centre starved the state of its rightful share to prevent it from implementing guarantee schemes.
For every rupee Karnataka gives, it only receive 13 paise back. This is not 'cooperative federalism'; it's outright exploitation, the Chief Minister alleged.
While Congress in Karnataka has delivered, BJP continues to fail Indians nationwide, he charged.
Kharge on Thursday told Siddaramaiah and his deputy D K Shivakumar to be well within the financial limits.
"Don't go for saying five, six, 10 or twenty guarantees. Give guarantees according to your state budget. If you give guarantees beyond your budget, you will become bankrupt. You will not even get soil to fill the road."
"People will blame you. If this government fails, then there will be nothing for the next generation. You will only get a bad name and not a good one."
In response, Modi launched a fierce attack on the opposition party as he seized on Kharge's comments that the Congress' state units should make promises that are properly budgeted.
"The Congress is realising the hard way that making unreal promises is easy but implementing them properly is tough or impossible. Campaign after campaign they promise things to the people which they also know that they will never be able to deliver. Now, they stand badly exposed in front of the people," the prime minister said.
ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ @narendramodi ಅವರೇ,
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) November 1, 2024
ಇಂದು ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವದ ದಿನ. ““ಭಾರತ ಜನನಿಯ ತನುಜಾತೆ, ಜಯ ಹೇ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಮಾತೆ…”” ಎಂದು ಸಾರಿದ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಕವಿ ಕುವೆಂಪು ಅವರ ಕಾವ್ಯವನ್ನು ನಾಡಗೀತೆಯಾಗಿ ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸಿರುವ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ, ಭಾರತಕ್ಕೆ ತಾಯಿಯ ಸ್ಥಾನವನ್ನು ನೀಡಿದೆ. ಇದೇ ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಮತ್ತು ಬದ್ಧತೆಯಿಂದ ಪ್ರಾಮಾಣಿಕವಾಗಿ ತಮ್ಮ ಬೆವರಗಳಿಕೆಯನ್ನು… https://t.co/3jWZFLezVZ
ಗ್ಯಾರಂಟಿ ಯೋಜನೆಗಳ ಅನುಷ್ಠಾನದಲ್ಲಿನ ಯಶಸ್ಸು ಮತ್ತು ಇದರಿಂದಾಗಿ ಏರುಗತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವ ರಾಜ್ಯದ ಆರ್ಥಿಕತೆಯನ್ನು ಕಂಡು ಬೆನ್ನುತಟ್ಟಿ ಪ್ರೊತ್ಸಾಹ ನೀಡಬೇಕಾಗಿದ್ದ ದೇಶದ ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ @narendramodi ಅವರು ಒಬ್ಬ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಪುಡಾರಿಯ ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಳ್ಳು ಆರೋಪಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಮತ್ತು ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರಿಗೆ ಅವಮಾನ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವುದು… https://t.co/vyPiGwBNMB
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) November 1, 2024
ಸನ್ಮಾನ್ಯ ಪ್ರಧಾನಮಂತ್ರಿ @narendramodi ಅವರೇ, ನಮ್ಮ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಕಡೆಗೆ ಬೆರಳು ಮಾಡುವ ಮುನ್ನ @BJP4Karnataka ಪಕ್ಷದ ವಿನಾಶಕಾರಿ ಇತಿಹಾಸದ ಮೇಲೊಮ್ಮೆ ಕಣ್ಣಾಯಿಸಿ. ನಾವು ಜನರಿಗೆ ನೀಡಿದ್ದ ಪ್ರತಿ ಭರವಸೆಯನ್ನು ಈಡೇರಿಸಿದ್ದೇವೆ - ನಮ್ಮ 5 ಗ್ಯಾರಂಟಿ ಯೋಜನೆಗಳನ್ನು ₹52,000 ಕೋಟಿಗೂ ಅಧಿಕ ಅನುದಾನದಲ್ಲಿ ಅನುಷ್ಠಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟಿದ್ದೇವೆ,…
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) November 1, 2024
ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ @narendramodi ಅವರೇ, ನಾವು ನುಡಿದಂತೆ ನಡೆದಿದ್ದೇವೆ, ನಿಮ್ಮ ಭರವಸೆಗಳೇನಾಯಿತು? ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬನ ಖಾತೆಗೆ ಹದಿನೈದು ಲಕ್ಷ ರೂಪಾಯಿ ಜಮೆ ಆಯಿತೇ? ಕಪ್ಪು ಹಣ ಮಾಯವಾಯಿತೇ? ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ ಎರಡು ಕೋಟಿ ಉದ್ಯೋಗ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಯಾಯಿತೇ? ರೈತರ ಆದಾಯ ದುಪ್ಪಟ್ಟಾಯಿತೇ? ಎಲ್ಲಿದೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸ್ಮಾರ್ಟ್ ಸಿಟಿ? ಎಲ್ಲಿದೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮೇಕ್ ಇನ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ? ನಿಮ್ಮ…
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) November 1, 2024
ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ @narendramodi ಅವರೇ, ಆಗಾಗ ನೀವು ಸುಳ್ಳು ಸಂಗತಿಗಳನ್ನು ಪೋಣಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ಆರೋಪಗಳನ್ನು ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾ ಬಂದಿದ್ದೀರಿ. ಈ “ ತೂ ತೂ ಮೈ ಮೈ..” ಚರ್ಚೆಗೆ ತಾರ್ಕಿಕವಾದ ಅಂತ್ಯ ಹಾಡಿ ಬಿಡೋಣ.
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) November 1, 2024
ಕಳೆದ ಎರಡು ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯ ಮುನ್ನ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಪಕ್ಷ ಬಿಡುಗಡೆಗೊಳಿಸಿದ್ದ ಪ್ರಣಾಳಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡು ಒಂದು… pic.twitter.com/YJNxynYGck
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Actress sexual assault: Court says Prosecution 'miserably' failed to prove conspiracy against Dileep
Kochi (PTI): The prosecution had "miserably" failed to prove the conspiracy charge against Dileep in the sensational 2017 actress sexual assault case, a local court has observed while citing inconsistencies and lack of sufficient evidence against the Malayalam star.
The full judgement of Ernakulam District and Principal Sessions Court Judge Honey M Varghese was released late on Friday, and has revealed the judge also pointing out at unsustainable arguments put forth by the prosecution.
"The prosecution miserably failed to prove the conspiracy between accused No.1 (Pulsar Suni) and accused No.8 (Dileep) in executing the offence against the victim," the court held.
It examined in detail, the prosecution's allegation that Dileep had hired the prime accused to sexually assault the survivor and record visuals, including close-up footage of a gold ring she was wearing, to establish her identity.
On page 1130 of the judgment, under paragraph 703, the court framed the issue as whether the prosecution's contention that NS Sunil (Pulsar Suni) recorded visuals of the gold ring worn by the victim at the time of the occurrence, so as to clearly disclose her identity, was sustainable.
The prosecution contended Dileep and Suni had planned the recording so that the actress' identity would be unmistakable, with the video of the gold ring intended to convince Dileep that the visuals were genuine.
However, the court noted that this contention was not stated in the first charge sheet and was introduced only in the second one.
As part of this claim, a gold ring was seized after the victim produced it before the police.
The court observed that multiple statements of the victim were recorded from February 18, 2017, following the incident, and that she first raised allegations against Dileep only on June 3, 2017.
Even on that day, nothing was mentioned about filming of the ring as claimed by the prosecution, the court said.
The prosecution failed to explain why the victim did not disclose this fact at the earliest available opportunities.
It further noted that although the victim had viewed the sexual assault visuals twice, she did not mention any specific recording of the gold ring on those occasions, which remained unexplained.
The court also examined the approvers' statements.
One approver told the magistrate that Dileep had instructed Pulsar Suni to record the victim's wedding ring.
The court observed that no such wedding ring was available with her at that time.
During the trial, the approver changed his version, the court said.
The Special Public Prosecutor put a leading question to the approver on whether Dileep had instructed the recording of the ring, after which he deposed that the instruction was to record it to prove the victim's identity.
The court observed that the approver changed his account to corroborate the victim's evidence.
When the same question was put to another approver, he repeated the claim during the trial but admitted he had never stated this fact before the investigating officer.
The court noted that the second approver even went to the extent of claiming Dileep had instructed the execution of the crime as the victim's engagement was over.
This showed that the evidence of the second approver regarding the shooting of the ring was untrue, as her engagement had taken place after the crime.
The court further observed that the visuals themselves clearly revealed the victim's identity and that there was no need to capture images of the ring to establish identity.
In paragraph 887, the court examined the alleged motive behind the crime and noted that in the first charge sheet, the prosecution had claimed that accused persons 1 to 6 had kidnapped the victim with the common intention of capturing nude visuals to extort money by threatening to circulate them and there was no mention about Dileep's role in it.
The court also rejected the prosecution's claim that the accused had been planning the assault on Dileep's instructions since 2013, noting that the allegation was not supported by reliable evidence.
It similarly ruled out the claim that Suni attempted to sexually assault the victim in Goa in January 2017, stating that witness statements showed no such misconduct when he served as the driver of the vehicle used by the actress there.
The court also discussed various controversies that followed Dileep's arrest and the evidence relied upon by the prosecution, ultimately finding that the case had not been proved.
Pronouning its verdict on the sensational case on December 8, the court acquitted Dileep and three others.
Later, the court sentenced six accused, including the prime accused Suni, to 20 years' rigorous imprisonment.
The assault on the multilingual actress, after the accused allegedly forced their way into her car and held it under their control for two hours on February 17, 2017, had shocked Kerala.
Pulsar Suni sexually assaulted the actress and video recorded the act with the help of the other convicted persons in the moving car.
