Karnataka: Villagers lay siege to residence raided by forest department officials
Mundagoda: In an incident that reportedly occurred on Friday night, Zonal officials and staff from the Forest Department had arrived at a residence in Kendalageri village to carry out a raid when the people of the village laid siege to the residence forcing the department’s officials to remain stuck inside in the house.
Reportedly, a local had informed the Forest Department that a resident of the village had indulged in deer hunting. Based on that information, the forest department staff had raided the latter’s house. However, they did not find any item in the house to indicate the claim. Angered by the raid, the villagers laid siege outside the residence forcing RFO Suresh Kullolli, who led the raid and other Forest Department staff to an inadvertent house arrest.
PSI Basavaraj Mabanur and police staff reportedly arrived at the village and placated the villagers. Later, while the police tried to take the Forest Department staff in their jeep, the villagers are said to have obstructed their path for another half an hour to stop the Forest Department officials from leaving. The villagers were adamantly demanding that the Forest Department officials reveal the identity of the informant who said that a villager had indulged in deer hunting, it is learned. ‘
After 1.5 hours of appealing and talks, the police reportedly managed to convince the villagers and take the Forest Department officials and staff away from the village.
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Affront to non-Hindi speaking people: Chidambaram slams use of Hindi words in bills' names
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader P Chidambaram has slammed the "increasing practice" of the government using Hindi words in the titles of the bills and said the change is an "affront" to the non-Hindi-speaking people.
Chidambaram said the non-Hindi-speaking people cannot identify a Bill/Act with titles that are in Hindi words written in English letters, and they cannot pronounce them.
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"I am opposed to the increasing practice of the government using Hindi words written in English letters in the title of the Bills to be introduced in Parliament," the former Union minister said late Monday night.
Hitherto, the practice was to write the title of the Bill in English words in the English version and in Hindi words in the Hindi version of the Bill, Chidambaram said.
"When no one pointed out any difficulty in the 75 year practice, why should government make a change?" he said.
"This change is an affront to non-Hindi speaking people and to States that have an official language other than Hindi," the Congress leader said.
Successive governments have reiterated the promise that English will remain an Associate Official Language, Chidambaram said.
"I fear that promise is in danger of being broken," the Congress MP said.
