Human Rights activist M H Sudhir Kumar Murolli is new president of APCR Karnataka chapter
Bangalore, February 16, 2025: The Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) Karnataka has announced its newly formed executive team, which will serve for the term 2025-2028. The team comprises legal experts, retired officials, academics, activists, and professionals dedicated to upholding civil liberties and human rights across the state. The executive committee was constituted during the state executive meeting held on January 16, 2025, at Bearys Association, Bhavana, Bangalore.
The team will be led by M H Sudhir Kumar Murolli, a human rights activist and advocate from Koppa, who has been appointed as the president. The vice president positions have been assigned to Akhila Vidhyasandra, an advocate at the Karnataka High Court, and Syed Ulfath Hussain, a former Inspector General of Police in Karnataka.
Mohammed Niyaz S, a high court advocate, will take on the role of general secretary, while Hussain Kodibengre, an activist from Udupi, has been named as secretary. The responsibilities of joint secretaries have been given to Zeeshan Aaqil Siddiqui, an activist from Raichur, and Shajeeha P, an advocate from Bangalore. Abdul Salam N K, also a practicing advocate in Bangalore, has been appointed as the treasurer.
The executive team includes several prominent figures from various fields. Former district judge Mohammad Khan Pathan, senior advocate and former state public prosecutor B T Venkatesh, and Jerald D Souza, the director of St. Joseph's College of Law in Bangalore, are among the members. Other notable individuals include Mavalli Shankar, the state convener of Dalit Sangarsha Samithi; Usman P, an advocate at the Karnataka High Court; and Akmal Razvi, a high court advocate based in Bangalore.
The committee also includes Mohammed Kunhi, the director of Shanthi Prakashana in Mangalore, and Mehadi Kaleem, an activist from Bangalore. Retired Deputy Superintendent of Police (NIA) Mohd A G Kaiser from Gulbarga has also joined the team. Media representation is present with Harshakumar Kugwe, editor-in-chief of Kannada Planet. Other members include social activist Malige from Bangalore, RTI activist Sheikh Shafi Ahmed from Kalburgi, and several legal professionals such as Afwan B from Udupi, Mushtaq Ahmed from Dharwad, and Jasbir Singh Dhoby, the president of Sri Guru Singh Sabha in Bangalore. Sardar Jarnail Singh, who serves as the secretary of Sri Guru Singh Sabha, is also part of the team.
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Screenwriter Salim Khan on ventilator support and stable, say doctors
Mumbai (PTI): Veteran screenwriter Salim Khan suffered a brain haemorrhage which has been tackled, is on ventilator support as a safeguard and stable, doctors treating him said on Wednesday, a day after he was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital here.
The 90-year-old, one half of the celebrated Salim-Javed duo which scripted films such as "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don" with Javed Akhtar, is in the ICU and recovery might take some time given his age.
"His blood pressure was high for which we treated him and we had to put him on a ventilator because we wanted to do certain investigations. Now the ventilator was put as a safeguard so that his situation doesn't get worse. So it is not that he is critical," Dr Jalil Parkar told reporters.
"We did the investigations that were required and today we have done a small procedure on him, I will not go into the details. The procedure done is called DSA (digital subtraction angiography). The procedure has been accomplished, he is fine and stable and shifted back to ICU. By tomorrow, we hope to get him off the ventilator. All in all, he is doing quite well," he added.
Asked whether he suffered a brain haemorrhage, the doctor said, "Unko thoda haemorrhage hua tha, which we’ve tackled. No surgery is required.
As concern over Khan's health mounted, his children, including superstar Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan, daughter Alvira, and sons-in-law Atul Agnihotri and Aayush Sharma, have been seen outside the hospital along with other well-wishers. His long-time partner Akhtar was also seen coming out of the hospital.
Khan, a household name in the 70s and 80s, turned 90 on November 24 last year. It was the day Dharmendra, the star of many of his films, including "Sholay", "Seeta aur Geeta" and "Yaadon Ki Baraat", passed away.
Hailing from an affluent family in Indore, Khan arrived in Mumbai in his 20s with dreams of stardom. He was good looking and confident he would make a mark in the industry as an actor. But that did not happen. And then, after struggling for close to a decade and getting confined to small roles in films, he changed lanes.
He worked as an assistant to Abrar Alvi and soon met Akhtar to form one of Hindi cinema's most formidable writing partnerships. They worked together on two dozen movies with most of them achieving blockbuster status.
Other than "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don", Khan and Akhtar also penned "Trishul", "Zanjeer", "Seeta Aur Geeta", "Haathi Mere Saathi", "Yaadon Ki Baarat" and "Mr India".
