Election Code violation : HC quashes case against Janardhana Poojary
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Friday quashed the trial from the lower court against violation of election code of conduct during the last Lok Sabha election.
Janardhana Poojary has filed a petition before the High Court requesting to quash the case against him. Upholding the petition, the Single Judge Bench led by Justice PS Dinesh Kumar quashed the case registered at Mangaluru North police station and the trial from the 2nd Additional JMFC Court.
Poojary had contested from Mangaluru Lok Sabha constituency in the 2014 LS poll. After filing his nomination papers on March 26, 2014, Poojary held a press conference at the party office and thus violated the election code of conduct, according GV Rajashekar who registered a case at the Mangaluru North police station under Public Representatives Act and under various sections of the IPC.
Based on the complaint, the police filed an FIR and investigated and submitted the charge sheet to the lower court. Hearing the case, the court had issued a summons on October 1, 2015 and asked him to attend the court. In turn, Poojary had filed a petition before the High Court in 2015 appealing to quash the summons issued by the lower court and the case against him. Accepting the case for hearing, the High Court has quashed the election code violation case against Janardhan Poojary.
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Four booked for tying 18-year-old to tree, beating him up in UP's Pratapgarh
Pratapgarh (UP) (PTI): Four people were booked here for the abduction and assault of a man who they allegedly tied to a tree and beat up, police said on Wednesday.
The incident, a video of which has gone viral, took place on Tuesday afternoon under the Kunda police station limits.
The FIR was registered on Wednesday evening based on a complaint from the victim's father.
According to Keshav Prasad Yadav, a resident of Mauli village, some people called his 18-year-old son Nikhil Yadav on the phone and asked him to come out of his house around 2.30 pm on Tuesday.
As he reached outside the village as instructed, the accused allegedly forced him into a car and took him towards the Tinpedwa forest area, where they tied him to a tree and assaulted, the complainant said.
The attackers also recorded a video of the incident and circulated it on social media. The purported video shows the men thrashing Nikhil one after another, while one of them is assumed to have recorded the act.
Kunda Station House Officer Manoj Pandey confirmed the incident and said efforts are underway to identify and arrest all the accused.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has shared the video on social media, describing the incident as reflective of a "dominant mindset" against the PDA (Pichda or Backward, Dalit, and Alpasankhyak or Minority), and demanded strict action against the accused.
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