Lingayat legislators’ meet not show of strength: Minister M B Patil
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Minister M B Patil on Thursday said the recent meeting of the Lingayat Congress legislators was not a show of strength, but it was for the welfare of the community.
According to him, the Aland MLA B R Patil had mooted the proposal, which Ramdurg MLA Ashok Pattan endorsed and convened a meeting of the Lingayat legislators a few days ago.
M B Patil said there were no discussions on matters that create confusion, such as who should become minister and who should be the chief minister.
“A meeting of Lingayat MLAs from the Congress was held four days ago. It was not a power display. Ashok Patil and B R Patil convened the meeting, and discussions were held only on community welfare,” the Commerce and Industries Minister told reporters here.
He said such meetings were routine and held by legislators from various communities.
“But projecting our meeting as a Lingayat power show is not correct,” Patil said.
“We are the biggest chunk. Our striking rate is the highest,” he pointed out.
Highlighting the community’s political contribution, he said, “In 1989, with Lingayat support, the Congress won 178 seats and created history. Our party (Congress) gave ticket to 56 Lingayat leaders in the 2023 Assembly election, out of which 36 had won.”
“Seeking adequate representation in the government is not wrong, but we will not take away another community’s share,” he added.
Lingayats are a dominant community in Karnataka, largely concentrated in the northern part of the state.
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Court can reject anticipatory bail but cannot direct accused to surrender: SC
New Delhi (PTI): A court can reject anticipatory bail of an accused but it has no jurisdiction to direct him to surrender before the trial court, the Supreme Court has said.
A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan made the observation while hearing a plea filed by a man accused of cheating and forgery.
"If the court wants to reject the anticipatory bail, it may do so, but the court has no jurisdiction to say that the petitioner should now surrender," the bench said.
The Jharkhand High Court had rejected anticipatory bail plea of the accused and asked him to surrender and seek regular bail.
In this case, a complaint had been filed before a magistrate alleging offences under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using forged document) and 120B read with 34 of the IPC, in connection with a land dispute.
The high court had dismissed the second anticipatory bail application of the accused on the ground that no new circumstances were shown.
It had relied on its earlier order rejecting his first anticipatory bail plea, in which the court directed the petitioner to surrender before the trial court and seek regular bail in terms of the decision in Satender Kumar Antil v. CBI.
The top court said such a direction was wholly without jurisdiction and said that if a court chooses to reject anticipatory bail, it may do so, but it cannot compel the accused to surrender.
