Voter ID case
‘BJP candidate conspires to fix Cong MLA’
Bengaluru, June 12: Two voters lodged a complaint against BJP candidate PM Muniraju Gowda in the Nandini Layout Police station alleging that the BJP leader has conspired to fix Congress MLA Munirathna in the voter ID storage case.
R Kumar (39) and C Anand (49) have lodged complaints separately saying that Muniraju Gowda had collected thousands of voter IDs from the voters. Those voters IDs were found in the Jalahalli SLV Park View apartment. Muniraju Gowda had threatened them to admit that the followers of Munirathna had collected the voter IDs, they alleged.
Muniraju Gowda had conducted Rangoli competition at Laggere and in the name of distributing prizes, he had distributed gold and silver ornaments and cash. In order to make sure that all the participants are from his constituency, he had collected more than thousand voter IDs, Kumar said in his complaint.
Muniraju Gowda had said that he would contest the election from the BJP and asked votes for him. In return, he promised of giving valuable gifts and returning of their voter ID cards on the day of voting near the polling station. When he opposed this, Gowda had threatened him, Kumar said.
“When the voter IDs were found in the apartment, Muniraju Gowda contacted us and asked us to mislead the police saying that the followers of Munirathna have collected the ID cards. Even he threatened us of dire consequences if we spilled the beans. So, we were silent”, Kumar said.
When people came to know that Muniraju Gowda had misused the voter IDs, they had been to the police station to give a complaint against the BJP leader. But the police declined to take the complaint, he said in his complaint.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
— Bareilly Police (@bareillypolice) November 24, 2024
