Teachers, Graduates constituencies’ elections: Counting begins
Bengaluru: The counting of votes for the recently held biennial elections to the State Legislative Council from Teachers and Graduates constituency has begun.
The counting process is underway in the RC College in Bengaluru. Police security has been beefed up around the college as a precautionary measure.
The counting process
As the polling was held by ballot papers, first the papers will be removed from the boxes and made into bundles of 25 each without scrutinising the contents. After mixing all these bundles of ballot papers, 500 ballot papers will be distributed to the counting table for separating valid and invalid votes and for distribution of first preference votes to candidates.
A candidate, who secures 50% per cent of the valid first preference votes plus one, will be declared the winner in the counting of first preference votes. The counting of the second and third preference votes will be taken up after counting of the first preference votes.
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Mangaluru: Bajpe police arrests young man for alleged derogatory posts against police
Bajpe: Police have arrested a youth for allegedly posting derogatory and defamatory content against the Bajpe police on social media.
The arrested accused has been identified as Abhishek M. (23), a resident of Katipalla, Surathkal.
According to the police, Abhishek posted a photograph of Bajpe Nisarga Hotel on his Instagram account mr_a_titude_22, alleging that accused persons in a murder case under the jurisdiction of the Bajpe police station were being treated “like royalty” by the police and were being served beef meals from the hotel every day. In his post, he further accused the police of colluding with criminals and misusing their authority, stating that public trust in the police was being betrayed.
Following which, the Bajpe police registered a case and arrested the accused.
Police records reveal that Abhishek is already facing multiple criminal cases. A case of murder, attempt to murder, assault and robbery has been registered against him at the Surathkal police station. At the same time, a robbery case has also been registered at the Kaup police station.
After his arrest, Abhishek was handed over to the custody of the CEN police for further investigation. He was later produced before a court, police said.
