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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11 more bodies retrieved from Arunachal accident site
Itanagar (PTI): Eleven more bodies were retrieved on Saturday from the deep gorge in Arunachal Pradesh's Anjaw district, where a mini-truck on which 22 labourers from Assam were travelling fell, an official said.
With this, 17 bodies have been recovered from the accident site, Anjaw's deputy commissioner Milo Kojin said.
He said three more bodies will be brought out on Sunday.
The operation, being conducted by a joint team of the NDRF and Army, resumed at 6 am.
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"The retrieval process was extremely difficult because of the treacherous terrain, and the gorge is very deep," Kojin said.
The operation was suspended around 4 pm due to low visibility and will be resumed on Sunday morning, he said.
"One person is still missing, and a search operation will be carried out tomorrow," he added.
The accident happened on the evening of December 8, around 40 km from Hayuliang towards Chaglagam in the district. On the evening of December 10, one survivor managed to climb out of the gorge and reach a nearby Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) labour camp, following which the authorities were alerted.
Six bodies were recovered from the gorge on Friday and handed over to their families on Saturday.
