Modi, Shah torturing Shivakumar through ED and IT: Dinesh Gundu Rao
Bengaluru, November 16: KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah have been misusing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Income Tax (IT) department to torture Minister DK Shivakumar for the last one year.
Speaking to reporters here on Friday, he said that it was a conspiracy hatched out purposefully. Earlier also, the Income Tax department officials have conducted raids on Shivakumar’s house and kept him in house arrest for three days. He was being tortured for the last one year, he said.
The incidents of former minister Janardhan Reddy and Shivakumar were separate incidents. Janardhan Reddy was jailed and released on bail. Now once again, he was arrested in another case and released on bail. But Shivakumar did not do any of such mistakes, he said.
“Law is equal to all. None is above the law. If Shivakumar makes any mistakes or crime, the agencies are free to arrest him and take action. Instead of it, he is being tortured which is not right. If the BJP people continue their torture, Shivakumar would rise above all”, he said.
When asked about Shivakumar’s statement that BJP MLA Sriramulu was in Congress, Gundu Rao said that Sriramulu was in the Congress earlier. In many local elections, he had contested on Congress ticket. Those who were in Congress had joined other parties and in the same way, leaders from other political parties have joined the Congress which is a common factor in politics. There were no discussions on bringing Sriramulu back to Congress. But the Congress has asked votes against Sriramulu and Janardhan Reddy in Ballari by-election and the people have voted the Congress, he said.
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Three children among 7 of family killed in massive fire at multi-storey building in Delhi's Palam
New Delhi, Mar 18 (PTI): Seven members of a family, including three children, died after a fire broke out in a multi-storey residential building in southwest Delhi's Palam area on Wednesday morning, officials said.
Two people jumped from the building in a bid to escape the flames and were admitted to a hospital, they said.
A massive firefighting and rescue operation was launched with 30 fire tenders after the Delhi Fire Service (DFS) received a call regarding the blaze around 7 am from a house located in a building near Palam Metro Station.
"Information was received about a fire in a residential unit, and we feared some people might be trapped inside. Rescue operations were launched immediately," a DFS officer said.
The second and third floors of the five-storey building were residential units.
Visuals from the scene showed thick plumes of black smoke billowing out of the building and rising into the sky, as flames engulfed portions of the structure.
Seven people, including three children, were taken out of the building by DFS personnel and rushed to a nearby hospital, where they were declared dead, officials said.
Two others had jumped out of the building due to the flames. They are currently under treatment at a hospital, they said.
According to Delhi Fire Services (DFS), the building had a basement and five floors, with a temporary tin shed on the roof. The basement, ground and first floors were being used for storage of clothes and cosmetics, while the second and third floors were residential units.
Firefighters carried out intensive search and rescue operations in the smoke-filled building after navigating through the congested locality. Cooling operations were underway at the time of filing this report, while teams continued to search the premises to ensure no one remained trapped, officials said.
In videos circulating online, people could be seen gathering in the narrow lanes near the building as firefighters battled the blaze using hoses and ladders.
Police and other emergency services have cordoned off the area to facilitate the firefighting operation. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. Further details are awaited.
