“ I was locked-up and then forced to do domestic work against my wishes. The house owner used to torture me by not even providing food to me. It is owing to this reason that I tried to escape from the house several times.”
Is the violence reported from BC Road area and other places in Bantwal taluk since Sunday evening-pre-planned? Police sources say this was a pre-planned act of the Sangh Parivar and there is also an allegation that some local Sangh Parivar activists had a role to play behind the violence.
As many as 12 persons were seriously injured, while a few vehicles and shops damaged in incidents of violence reported from B.C Road area since Sunday evening when
a dispute over an umpire decision during the volleyball match of the Dasara sports meet held at the Modankaup Deepika High School, got communal overtones, culminating in rumour mills spinning that a few girls have been subject to eve-teasing.
The Udupi town police have until now not registered any case against the accused in the case of encroaching the farm land of a family, for the sole reason that the accused are relatives of State Finance Commission Chairman AG Kodgi. Instead, the cops have
reportedly threatened the complainants and instructed them to end the matter amicably.
A series of accidents were reported near Kolnadu mini bridge on NH 17 which has of late acquired notoriety as an accident prone zone, on Sunday.
The environmental activists gheraoed and took to task the Deputy Commissioner, the commissioner of MCC and a contractor while the former were making preparations to fell trees on the road side prior to the road widening and concretization work in Valencia on Sunday.
The Udupi police bog which had recently portrayed a father –in –law as the husband is in the news by getting itself caught in yet another gaffe.
“The midday meal scheme, an ambitious project initiated by the Centre to the school children is also being saffronised through privatization of the scheme,” alleged SFI State President H R Naveen Kumar.
The MCC has set its eyes on the garden near Urwa store –Derebail popularly known as the ‘Radiogudde’ (Radio Pavilion) which has so far been the most favourite spot of everyone right from sport loving kids to middle aged persons and the aged who have been using this place for a quite stroll and for spending a few quite moments in solitude.
A complaint has been registered in Bunder Police station against staff of SDBCISCO Bank, which is said to have entered into an agreement with Ind Sind Bank for allegedly defrauding the bank to the tune Rs 9.85 lakhs.