Vijayapura, October 20: “We will not budge to the autocracy of senior MLA Shamanur Shivashankarappa who said he will complain against us to the party high command. Let him give complaint. We will see the next course of action”, said former minister M.B. Patil.

Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, Patil said that Shamanur Shivashankarappa was a senior leader and he has respect towards him. But he said that Vinay Kulkarni had a humiliating defeat. What about his son S.S. Mallikarjun? First he should introspect about his son, he added.

It was not fair to raise the issue of separate Lingayat religion during by-elections. Shamanur Shivashankarappa had joined hands with the seers of Pancha Peethas who were responsible for the defeat of the Congress in the last Assembly election, he alleged.

“Shamanur Shivashankarappa was elected in a constituency which has more than 70,000 Muslim voters. Let him think about the defeat of his son. But in my constituency, I have won though Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally campaigned against me”, he said.

The school records of Shamanur Shivashankarappa, Yeddyurappa, Umesh Katti and Pancha Peetha seers have shown that they were Lingayats. Only 10,000 people have written as Veerashaivas. When S.M. Krishna was the chief minister, MP Prakash had included the word ‘Veerashaiva’ in the software, he said.

If the central government rejected the proposal submitted by the state government on separate Lingayat religion status, they would move the Supreme Court. Now, Shamanur Shivashankarappa has joined hands with Rambhapuri Swamiji. He would discuss all the issues with the high command after November 3, he said.

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Alappuzha, (Kerala) (PTI): Four doctors in Kerala have been booked for allegedly failing to detect genetic disorders in a newborn while it was still in the mother's womb, the police said on Thursday.

The accused include two female doctors attached to the Kadappuram Government Women and Child Hospital in Alappuzha, along with two doctors from private diagnostic labs, according to the Alappuzha South police.

The police registered an FIR on Tuesday based on a complaint lodged by Anish and Surumi, a couple from Alappuzha.

They alleged that the doctors failed to detect or disclose the genetic abnormalities during prenatal scans, instead assuring them that the reports were normal.

The couple also claimed that they were shown the baby only four days after delivery, according to the complaint.

The FIR stated that Surumi, 35, was undergoing treatment for her third pregnancy at Kadappuram Women and Child Hospital.

On October 30, Surumi was admitted for delivery. However, she was referred to Government Medical College Hospital (MCH) in Vandanam, Alappuzha, citing the absence of fetal movement and heartbeat, the FIR said.

On November 8, the baby was delivered following surgery at MCH and was found to have severe internal and external deformities, the FIR stated.

Meanwhile, one of the accused doctors, responding to the allegations, said she had treated Surumi only during the initial months of her pregnancy.

"I provided care for three months at the beginning of her pregnancy. The reports shown to me indicated issues with the fetus's growth," she said.

The doctors associated with the diagnostic labs, however, maintained that there were no errors in the scan reports.

The police registered a case invoking Sections 125 (act endangering life or personal safety of others), 125 (b) (where grievous hurt is caused, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees, or with both) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against the accused.