Kavitha Prabhakar from BJP disqualified from Kodagu ZP membership: Court gave important verdict
Madikeri, December 4: The Senior Civil Court has disqualified the election of Kodagu zilla panchayat Bhagamandala seat member Kavitha Prabhakar elected on BJP ticket. Devangadi Thilak Subraya who contested against Kavitha Prabhakar, was declared as winning candidate.
Kavitha Prabhakar from BJP and Devangodi Thilak Subraya from Congress contested from Bhagamandala seat reserved for woman candidate. But Kavitha Prabhakar has won the election held on February 20, 2016. But Congress candidate Devangodi Thilak Subraya, through advocate MA Niranjan, questioned the election of Kavitha Prabhakar in the Senior Civil Court in March.
As per the Karnataka Gram Swaraj and Panchayat Raj Act Column 167(H), no panchayat members should have any interests in panchayat works either directly or indirectly. But Prabhakar, husband of Kavitha Prabhakar, is a ZP contractor and executed the panchayat works. Apart from this, advocate Niranjan drew the attention of the court that Prabhakar has drawn amount from the panchayat after the election.
Advocate Niranjan presented his argument in the court citing the violation of Karnataka Gram Swaraj and Panchayat Raj Act Column 167(H) as the main evidence. After listening to the arguments from both the sides, judge Vijay Kumar declared the victory of Kavitha Prabhakar as null and void and declared the defeated candidate Thilak Subraya as winning candidate.
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Ishan Kishan to lead SRH in early part of IPL 2026
Hyderabad (PTI): Sunrisers Hyderabad on Wednesday appointed India wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan as interim captain for the early part of IPL 2026, with Abhishek Sharma as his deputy, while Pat Cummins recovers from his injury.
Cummins has been sidelined with a stress injury on his lower back, which kept him away for a major part of the last Ashes series Down Under as well as the T20 World Cup.
"Pat Cummins will miss a few games while recovering from injury. Until he recovers, Ishan Kishan will be the captain and Abhishek Sharma will be the vice-captain," the franchise said on social media.
IPL 2016 winners SRH, however, did not specify the number of matches Cummins is set to miss.
Kishan's appointment as SRH's stand-in skipper comes after a successful run across formats.
The left-handed batter played a key role in India's title-winning campaign in the T20 World Cup, finishing as the fourth-highest run-scorer in the tournament with 317 runs in nine matches at 199.37. He averaged 80.25 and struck three half-centuries.
His exploits with the willow also saw Kishan rising to the No.2 spot in the ICC rankings for T20I batters, a list which is led by Abhishek.
Earlier this season, Kishan had captained Jharkhand to their first-ever title in India's premier domestic T20 competition, Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy.
