Dalit youth commits suicide in Mulbagal: Four held for harassment, assault of the youth
Mulbagal: Nangali police arrested four people of Petandlahalli village near Byrakur in the taluk on Saturday, for harassment of a Dalit youth who committed suicide in Bevahalli village of the taluk.
The police sources said that Raju, Shivaraj, Gopalakrishnappa and Munivenkatappa were arrested in relation to the case.
Uday Kiran, who belonged to a Dalit community, is learned to have committed suicide after being assaulted by the arrested men, who are from upper castes, for apparently a trivial reason.
Nangali police had filed a case against the four arrested men under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, said sources.
District Superintendent D Devaraj has said, “The four accused, who had been absconding, were held on Saturday. The investigation in the matter will be intensified.”
On November 30, Uday and his friend, who were on a two-wheeler, overtook Raju and Gopalakrishnappa, who were apparently upset by this. The arrested men are said to have stopped and verbally assaulted Uday on the spot. Later, when Uday and his friend were returning from Kadenahalli, the four men stopped the duo near Petlandahalli and thrashed Uday, before taking away his bike and mobile phone, sources said.
When Uday approached the arrested men later to collect his two-wheeler and mobile phone, the four men are learned to have tied him to a tree at Racchekatte of Petlandahalli, thrashed and verbally abused him on caste basis too.
The complainants told the Nangali police that Uday, unable to take the insult, committed suicide.
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Allahabad HC dismisses petition seeking permission to mount loudspeaker on mosque
Prayagraj, Jan 24 (PTI): The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday dismissed a writ petition seeking direction to the state authorities to permit the mounting of loudspeakers on a Masjid.
The court observed that the religious places were for offering prayers, therefore the use of loudspeakers was not a matter of right.
Dismissing the writ petition filed by Pilibhit-resident Mukhtiyar Ahmad, a two judge-bench, comprising Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Donadi Ramesh, observed, "Religious places are for offering prayers to the divinity and use of loudspeakers cannot be claimed as a matter of right, particularly when often such use of loudspeakers create nuisance for the residents".
At the outset, the state counsel objected to the maintainability of the writ on the grounds that the petitioner was neither a mutawalli, nor did the mosque belong to him.
The court also noted that the petitioner did not have locus to file the writ petition.
The term 'locus' is a legal concept that refers to the right of a person or entity to participate in a legal proceeding or bring a lawsuit.
