Dalit youth dies in Bengaluru police custody: Case Transferred CID
Bengaluru: Following the death of a Dalit youth under the custody of the Cottonpet Police, the case has been handed over to the CID.
The Cottonpet Police were to produce the arrested Vinod before court on Thursday. Vinod is learned to have lost consciousness in his cell on Thursday morning and died on the way to hospital.
DCP (West Division) Laxman Nimbargi, who spoke on the incident, said that an attempt to dacoity case had been registered at the Cottonpet Police Station against Vinod in 2017. The court had also granted a non-bailable warrant and on Wednesday evening, the police had arrested Vinod.
The officer added that the arrested had spent the night at the Cottonpet Police Station. The station staff tried to wake him up at around 3:45 am on Thursday, but Vinod did not wake up. The staff rushed him to hospital, where the doctors checked him and said that he had died, Nimbargi said.
“A custodial death has been registered. We have followed all the guidelines of a custodial case. The case has been transferred to the CID,” the DCP said.
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BJP's main agenda is to keep minorities in fear, alleges Stalin
Chennai (PTI): DMK President M K Stalin has alleged that the BJP's main agenda is to keep the minorities in fear, and everyone is aware of what is happening in the states governed by the saffron party.
Stalin further alleged that Muslims continued to be subjected to attacks.
"Now, a situation has arisen where even Christmas could not be celebrated peacefully. Christians are being targeted. The entire country is a witness to what is happening in Manipur. The BJP's plan of action is that a state of insecurity for minorities should spread like a wildfire across the country," he told PTI in an interview.
That was why it first enacted the CAA, and the next was an amendment to the Waqf law, and now it is "desperate" to amend the FCRA, he alleged, and lashed out at AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami.
"Palaniswami, who supports all these three amendments and has formed an alliance with the BJP, does not have any concern for the welfare of minorities. However, the DMK is always firm in its commitment to ensure that India must always be a secular state; that people belonging to all religions must be equally respected and that the Constitutional safeguards conferred on minorities must be upheld. If any of these is threatened, the DMK will be the first party to raise its voice against it," he said.
Denying that the BJP made the minorities feel insecure, BJP state vice president M Chakravarthy said the chief minister was making the allegation due to the "fear that the Christian and Dalit votes would go to Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam led by actor-politician Vijay."
He was depicting the BJP as a bogeyman in an attempt to create unnecessary apprehension among the minorities, the BJP leader told PTI.
On FCRA, Chakravarthy asked, "What's wrong with ensuring accountability in the use of funds?"
