Controversy erupts as former Bengaluru Police Commissioner imply Muslims' role in Kerala blast
Kochi: In a tragic incident at the Kalamasheri Convention Center in Kochi, Kerala, a woman lost her life, and at least 40 others sustained injuries in a series of blasts.
Retired IPS officer and BJP leader, Bhaskar Rao, triggered controversy after he shared shared a controversial post on social media, implying the involvement of Muslims in the attack.
Dominic Martin, the alleged perpetrator of the explosion, surrendered to the police and confessed his responsibility in a Facebook Live video. The incident occurred around 9 am, and by 11:20 am, it had garnered national media attention.
Speculation about the identity of the culprits was rampant, leading the Kerala Police to issue a warning against the dissemination of fake news. At 4:20 pm, ADGP MR Ajith Kumar confirmed the surrender of the accused Dominic Martin and provided details about the case.
However, the controversy ignited when Bhaskar Rao, the former police commissioner of Bengaluru, posted a message on social media at 2:21 pm, indirectly implicating Muslims in the blast. Rao's post, which suggested a connection between the explosion and the Muslim community, triggered a significant debate and drew criticism from various quarters.
Despite the revelation of the actual perpetrator and his subsequent surrender, Bhaskar Rao did not delete his post or issue a clarification regarding his statement
There was a long lull in Bomb blasts in the country; Do more and more appeasement and bring Terror into your City, Neighbourhood and to your Door Step. Misplaced vote bank politics of decades by Congress and CPM have kept Muslims uneducated, backward and criminalising them……
— Bhaskar Rao (@Nimmabhaskar22) October 29, 2023
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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.
