Name Kushalnagar after British officer, demands Codava National Council
Madikeri, June 29: Codava National Council president N U Nachappa urged the government to name Kushalnagar which reminds Tipu Sultan who was responsible for Devatparambu carnage, after Frazer Town or soldier Kulletira Ponnanna.
Speaking to reporters here on Friday after submitting a memorandum to the deputy commissioner, he said that when Tipu was born, his father Hyder Ali who camped with his army at Dandinapete on the bank of Cauvery, had called the region as Kushalnagar. The Persian word ‘Kush’ means, celebration. So as the Kushalnagar would remind Tipu Sultan, the government should rename the place as Frazer Town or Kulletira Ponnanna, he demanded.
The place was named after JS Frazer who ended the ruling of dynasty to uphold the self respect of Codava tribals and passed an Act banning the cow slaughter in 1835 for the first time in the country. But when the Mysuru state was merged with Karnataka in 1956, Frazer Pete was renamed as Kushalnagar. If the government was not ready to rename Kushalnagar after the British officer, it could think of naming it after Codava army commander Kulletira Ponnanna who chased the army of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan who were attacking Kodagu, he demanded.
Welcoming the renaming of Aurangzeb and Akbar roads in New Delhi after Dr Abdul Kalam road and Maharana Pratap road respectively by the Narendra Modi government, he said that the government should change the names which remind the misdeeds of Tipu Sultan, he said.
The memorandum was sent to President Ramnath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others. If the name was not changed, the Council would continue its peaceful protest, he said.
Kaliyanda Prakash, Mukonda Dilip, Mandapanda Manoj, Kiriyada Sharein, Chambanda Janath and Areyada Girish were present while submitting the memorandum.
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Three company directors held in Rs 100-crore investment fraud in Kochi
Kochi (Kerala) (PTI): Police on Sunday arrested three directors of a firm accused of cheating hundreds of investors of over Rs 100 crore through a fake investment scheme linked to agricultural tourism here, officials said.
The accused were identified as Muraleedharan, Ashik Murali and Akhil Murali, all natives of Thrissur.
The arrests were made by the Kalamassery police in connection with a fraud involving ATCOS (Agri Tourism Cooperative Society), a firm headquartered at Pathadipalam here.
Police said the company had promised high returns by collecting investments from the public in the agricultural tourism sector, but allegedly cheated hundreds of people and fled with the money.
ATCOS was registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act and operated 13 branches across various districts in Kerala, besides a branch in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, officials said.
When investors failed to receive their promised returns or the invested amount, complaints were filed with the police.
Officials said around 54 cases have been registered against the firm in 32 police stations across the state, including 29 cases at the Kalamassery police station alone.
Following instructions from Kochi City Police Commissioner K S Mahesh Kumar, a special investigation team was formed under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Shehensha and Thrikkakara ACP Manoj Kumar.
The team traced the accused to an apartment in Amala Nagar in Thrissur, where they had been hiding after secretly renting the flat, officials said.
The bank accounts of the accused have been frozen, and steps have been initiated to trace their assets, officials said.
Police also conducted a raid at the company’s office at Pathadipalam and seized several documents related to the case.
The accused were produced before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Kalamassery, which remanded them to judicial custody and sent them to Kakkanad jail.
Police said they would seek the custody of the accused for further interrogation as the investigation continues.
