Mysuru Police Commissioner tests positive for COVID
Bengaluru, Aug 25 (PTI) Mysuru city Police Commissioner Chandragupta has tested positive for COVID-19, official sources said on Tuesday.
Karnataka State Reserve Police ACP Bharat Raj too has tested positive for the infection, they said. Both the officers are currently under home isolation and taking required treatment, officials said.
Earlier this month Mysuru district Superintendent of Police C B Ryshyanth had tested positive.
As Chandragupta had attended a meeting along with Ryshyanth before the latter tested positive, he was under home quarantine and underwent a test, despite being asymptomatic, sources added.
Meanwhile, Arsikere JD(S) MLA K M Shivalingegowda has also tested positive for the infection and has been hospitalised.
Stating that Shivalingegowda has tested positive, JD(S) leader and former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy in a tweet, wished him a speedy recovery and hoped that he returns to serve the people soon. JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda too has wished him a speedy recovery.
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Rupali Chakankar resigns as NCP state women's wing chief
Mumbai (PTI): Under fire over her association with rape-accused 'godman' Ashok Kharat, NCP leader Rupali Chakankar on Friday resigned as the party's Maharashtra women's wing chief.
"Following a discussion over the phone with (NCP president and deputy Chief Minister) Sunetra Pawar this morning, I am tendering my resignation as state president of the Nationalist Congress Party's women's wing," she said in a post on X.
Earlier, Chakankar had stepped down as chairman of the Maharashtra State Commission for Women after her links with Kharat came to light.
In the letter shared on the social media platform, Chakankar said that she had clarified her stand on the Kharat case on the very first day, asserting that she had no direct or indirect connection with his financial dealings or alleged wrongdoings.
Her stand remains clear and firm, and the truth would emerge in the course of investigation, Chakankar added.
The allegations being levelled against her in the media without any evidence are "painful" but the truth would ultimately prevail, she said.
Kharat, who headed a temple trust at Mirgaon in Nashik district, was arrested on March 18 after a woman accused him of raping her repeatedly over three years. A total of eight FIRs have been registered against him since then.
Chakankar was a member of the temple trust.
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