Karnataka BJP minister booked for allegedly threatening family after family members attempt suicide
Bengaluru: Karnataka BJP Minister Anand Singh was on Wednesday booked for allegedly threatening a family. The family members on Tuesday evening attempted suicide following the alleged threats from the minister and tried to set themselves ablaze.
State’s Tourism, Ecology, and Environment Minister Anand Singh had reportedly threatened to burn the entire family of complainant D Polappa over a land dispute.
The minister was booked under the Prevention of Atrocities Against SC-ST Act, and sections 504 and 506 of the IPC based on a complaint filed by Polappa who belongs to the SC community.
The complainant arrived near the Hospet rural police station on Tuesday night with five of his relatives. All of them tried to set themselves on fire. However, they were rescued and taken to hospital, police said.
A case was also registered against Mr Polappa and five others for attempting suicide, they added.
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Lift collapses at Rajasthan mine, 8 officials of Hindustan Copper Limited rescued, 7 still inside
Jaipur (PTI): Eight of the fifteen members of a team of Hindustan Copper Limited who had been trapped in a mine in Neem ka Thana district since last night were rescued on Wednesday morning.
Fifteen officials of the public sector company got trapped in a mine Tuesday night when a cage used to carry the personnel fell down along the shaft after a rope broke, police said.
Three persons were rescued and taken out of the mine in the first round and five more were taken out in the second round.
Neem ka Thana Collector Sharad Mehra told reporters that remaining persons would also be taken out in around two hours.
Earlier, Dr Mahendra Singh, a part of the medical team, said the three rescued were sent to SMS hospital in Jaipur with fractures and other injuries.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma said officials have been instructed to speed up the relief and rescue operations.
"Information was received about the accident caused by the breakage of the lift rope in the Kolihan mine of Hindustan Copper Limited in Khetri, Jhunjhunu. The concerned officials have been instructed to immediately reach the spot and speed up the relief and rescue operations and provide all possible help and health facilities to the affected," he said in a post on X.
A vigilance team, along with senior officials and workers of the state-owned company, had gone inside the mine for an inspection.
However, when they were about to come up, the rope holding the cage broke due to which it collapsed and the personnel were trapped at a depth of several hundred feet, police said.
