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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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.
