Two more constables in Bengaluru suspended for harassing married couple for walking at midnight
Bengaluru: The rise in the number of immoral policing by the cops in Bengaluru has raised concerns among the residents of the city. The city police on Friday dismissed two more constables from service for harassing a married couple here in the city.
The incident was reported from Manyata Tech Park when the couple was walking back home earlier in December last year. The two constables had reportedly harassed the couple and forced them to pay Rs. 1,000 through an online payment app.
The cops had reportedly told the couple that they had broken the law by walking on the street after 11. pm. The couple was walking home from a birthday cake-cutting event.
The city police had launched a probe against the allegations by the couple who had reported the incident on Twitter urging the City Police Commissioner to take action against the cops involved.
On Friday the city police the two constables involved in the matter from service.
Earlier last week, a home guard attached to the BBMP was also arrested or harassing a woman and her male friend for sitting “without permission” nearby a lake in the city.
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Surat LS candidate Nilesh Kumbhani whose nomination form was rejected suspended from Congress
Ahmedabad, Apr 25: The Gujarat Congress on Friday suspended from the party for six years its Surat Lok Sabha candidate Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination form was rejected over discrepancies leading to the BJP's Mukesh Dalal getting elected unopposed.
A statement from the Congress said the party's disciplinary committee decided to suspend Kumbhani after thorough discussion, adding it had come to the conclusion that the nomination form was rejected due to gross negligence on his part or "in connivance with the BJP".
"To be fair to you we have given time to you to explain your case but instead of coming before the party disciplinary committee you have gone incommunicado. After your form was rejected by the authorities, BJP went ahead and got form of other eight candidates withdrawn. This has deprived people of Surat their voting rights," the Congress disciplinary committee headed by Balu Patel said.
"People of Surat and party workers have become very angry due to your action and are expressing their anger in different ways. The Congress party has decided to suspend you for six years from the party," the press note said.
Kumbhani's nomination form was rejected on April 21 after his three proposers submitted affidavits to the district returning officer claiming the signatures on the document was not theirs.
The nomination form of Suresh Padsala, the Congress' substitute candidate from Surat, was also invalidated on the same grounds.
In his order, Returning Officer Sourabh Pardhi said the three nomination forms submitted by Kumbhani and Padsala were rejected after prima facie discrepancy was found in the signatures of the proposers and they did not appear to be genuine.
Kumbhani, a former corporator from Surat, had unsuccessfully fought the 2022 Assembly polls from Kamrej there.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed from Surat Lok Sabha constituency on April 22 after all other nominees, including one from BSP, withdrew from the fray one by one on the last day of withdrawing papers.
