Mysuru Police Inspector caught accepting bribe by Lokayukta
Mysuru: In a crackdown on corruption, Inspector Radha of Kuvempunagar Police Station in Mysuru was caught red-handed by the Lokayukta Police while accepting a bribe in connection with a case.
The incident took place when Inspector Radha allegedly demanded a bribe from a contractor whose cars had been seized by the Kuvempunagar police. The vehicles contained gold ornaments, property documents, a bank passbook, and an ATM card. In return for the release of the cars with the valuables, Inspector Radha demanded a bribe of Rs. 2 lakh.
Following this, the contractor lodged a complaint with the Lokayukta police on Thursday. Acting on the complaint, the Lokayukta Police conducted a raid at the Kuvempunagar Police Station and arrested Inspector Radha while she was accepting Rs. 50,000 as part of the bribe.
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The operation was executed under the supervision of Lokayukta Director General of Police Prashant Kumar Thakur and Inspector General of Police Subrahmaneswara Rao. The team included Superintendent of Police Sajeet VJ, DYSP Krishnaiah, and several police inspectors from the Mysuru Lokayukta Police Station, including Umesh, Jayaratna, Rupashree, Ravikumar, Ramesh, Gopi, Kantaraju, Prakash, Mohangowda, Veena, Pushpalatha, Divyashree, Netravathi, Pradeep, Parasurama, Mohan, and Lokesh.
Inspector Radha has been taken into custody by the Lokayukta Police, and further investigations are underway.
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Supreme Court rejects plea for reverting to ballots in elections
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking to revert to ballot paper voting in elections in the country.
"What happens is, when you win the election, EVMs (electronic voting machine) are not tampered. When you lose the election, EVMs are tampered (with)," remarked a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and P B Varale.
Apart from ballot paper voting, the plea sought several directions including a directive to the Election Commission to disqualify candidates for a minimum of five years if found guilty of distributing money, liquor or other material inducement to the voters during polls.
When petitioner-in-person K A Paul said he filed the PIL, the bench said, "You have interesting PILs. How do you get these brilliant ideas?".
The petitioner said he is the president of an organisation which has rescued over three lakh orphans and 40 lakh widows.
"Why are you getting into this political arena? Your area of work is very different," the bench retorted.
After Paul revealed he had been to over 150 countries, the bench asked him whether each of the nations had ballot paper voting or used electronic voting.
The petitioner said foreign countries had adopted ballot paper voting and India should follow suit.
"Why you don't want to be different from the rest of the world?" asked the bench.
There was corruption and this year (2024) in June, the Election Commission announced they had seized Rs 9,000 crore, Paul responded.
"But how does that make your relief which you are claiming here relevant?" asked the bench, adding "if you shift back to physical ballot, will there be no corruption?".
Paul claimed CEO and co-founder of Tesla, Elon Musk, stated that EVMs could be tampered with and added TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, the current chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, and former state chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy had claimed EVMs could be tampered with.
"When Chandrababu Naidu lost, he said EVMs can be tampered with. Now this time, Jagan Mohan Reddy lost, he said EVMs can be tampered with," noted the bench.
When the petitioner said everybody knew money was distributed in elections, the bench remarked, "We never received any money for any elections."
The petitioner said another prayer in his plea was the formulation of a comprehensive framework to regulate the use of money and liquor during election campaigns and ensuring such practices were prohibited and punishable under the law.
The plea further sought a direction to mandate an extensive voter education campaign to raise awareness and importance of informed decision making.
"Today, 32 per cent educated people are not casting their votes. What a tragedy. If democracy will be dying like this and we will not be able to do anything then what will happen in the years to come in future," the petitioner said.
