Steps to include MLA Ganesh to ‘Rowdy sheeter’ list: MB Patil
Bengaluru, Jan 23: Home Minister MB Patil said that Kampli MLA Ganesh would be arrested shortly related to an attack on MLA Anand Singh and his name would be included in the list of ‘Rowdy sheeter’ as per the law.
Speaking to reporters at his office at Vidhana Soudha here on Wednesday, Patil said that “no one is above the law. Already, an FIR is registered against MLA Ganesh and the police will do their duty. Police have been searching for Ganesh and shortly, he will be arrested. Neither the state government nor myself will interfere in this case. This is an important case”, he said.
In the beginning, he did not have complete information on the fighting. So, all leaders including DK Shivakumar gave different statements. But DCM Dr. G. Parameshwar, party Karnataka incharge KC Venugopal, KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao and himself visited the hospital and took first hand information.
Family members of Anand were in panic and confusion. He asked them to lodge a complaint. Based on the complaint, a case was registered and the party has suspended Ganesh. Investigation was being conducted and action would be taken as per the law, the Home Minister said.
Minister E Tukaram and MLA Tanveer Sait were the witnesses on the attack incident. Shortly, Ganesh would be arrested and legal action would be taken against him, he clarified.
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Ahmedabad plane crash: Six months on, college hostel lies in ruins, sans bustle of students
Ahmedabad (PTI): Six months after the AI-171 plane crash, the B J Medical College hostel complex in Ahmedabad stands as a haunting reminder, with its charred walls and burnt trees replacing the once lively chatter of students with an eerie stillness.
Scattered across the crash site are grim remnants of daily life - burnt cars and motorcycles, twisted beds and furniture, charred books, clothes and personal belongings.
The Atulyam-4 hostel building and the adjoining canteen complex stand abandoned, with entry strictly prohibited.
For residents near the site, memories of the incident still linger, casting a lasting shadow on their lives, with some of them saying they are still afraid to look up at the sky when an aircraft passes overhead.
On June 12, Air India flight AI-171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for London, crashed moments after take-off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport, killing 260 persons.
The aircraft slammed into the BJ Medical College hostel complex in Meghaninagar, turning a lively student neighbourhood into a landscape of ruin and grief.
"The area now lies very silent, only a few birds chirp here," Sanjaybhai, a security guard deployed at the premises by authorities to prevent trespassing, told PTI.
Mahendrasingh Jadeja, a general store owner whose shop is just 50 metres from the point where the aircraft struck, described it as an unimaginable calamity. "In all my years, I have never seen anything like this."
Pointing to a tree behind his shop, the 60-year-old said the aircraft first struck there before crashing into the hostel building.
"It was a scorching summer afternoon. Not many people were outside. When I heard a loud crashing sound, I ran out of my shop. We were all terrified," he recalled.
"Even today, we instinctively look up whenever a plane passes overhead," he added.
Another local, Manubhai Rajput, who lives barely 200 metres from the site, said he witnessed the horror unfold on June 12.
"The plane was flying unusually low. Before I could understand what was happening, there was thick black smoke and a deafening crash," he said.
For over three decades, Rajput and his neighbours lived close to the airport without giving much thought to the aircraft overhead.
"We never looked up at the sky. But that day is etched in my mind. The plane hit a tree first, and then there was a loud sound," he said.
Rajput recalled how hundreds of locals rushed to the site even before police, fire services or the Army arrived.
Tinaben, another resident of Meghaninagar, said she never imagined something like this could happen in Ahmedabad.
"Despite being close to the airport, this area always felt safe," she said.
As an aircraft roared overhead during the conversation, Tinaben paused, looked up nervously and said, "It's still scary."
A senior official of Civil Hospital Ahmedabad, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the state government has yet to decide what to do with the damaged site.
Currently, investigations are going on and the site is strictly prohibited for people, he added.
