200 Youth Congress workers sign eye donation forms

January 21, 2012

Mangalore, January 21: As many as 200 Youth Congress workers here on Saturday registered their names to donate their eyes after their death to Udupi based Prasad Netralaya.

Veteran Congress leader and former Union minister B Janardhan Poojary formally handed over the filled registration forms of eye donation to Prasad Netralaya chairman Krishna Prasad at the Youth Congress Convention organized at Town Hall.

Mr Poojary also encouraged the congress workers to set an example before the society.

State ignoring youth

Speaking at the Convention State Youth Congress president Rizwan Arshad said that the BJP led Karnataka Government has completely ignored the youth of the state. “The BJP leaders have forgotten their poll-time pledge of Rs 15,00 unemployment allowance for unemployed youth” he said.

He said that the State government even failed to effectively implement various schemes of Union government.

Mr Arshad went on to ridicule the recent proposal of Youth Budget by Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda saying that it would be as useless as the 'agriculture budget' of former CM B S Yeddyurappa.

Misusing Youth Power

Mr Arshan accused the Sangh Parivar of misusing the youth power and leading youth towards communalism. The recent incident of the hoisting of Pakistani national flag at Tahsildar's office in Sindagi by Hindutva activists is a small example for the disastrous tricks of communal forces, he said.

Gandhinagar MLA Dinesh Gundu Rao said that the biggest achievement of the first ever BJP government of South India, to create most corrupt chief minister in the history of the state. “The first BJP CM of the state has created history by becoming the first CM to be imprisoned”, he said.

Dakshina Kannada district Congress Committee president B Ramanath Rai, Mangalore MLA U T Khader and other Congress leaders Vijayakumar Shetty, Priyanka Kharge, Bondala Jagannath Shetty, Mamatha Gatty were also present among others.

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HC refuses to quash probe against Mangaluru WhatsApp admin over offensive posts

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February 1,2026

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash an investigation against a WhatsApp group administrator accused of allowing the circulation of obscene and offensive images depicting Hindutva politicians and idols in 2021.

Justice M Nagaprasanna observed that, prima facie, the ingredients of the offence under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code were made out. “The offence under Section 295A of the IPC is met to every word of its ingredient, albeit prima facie,” the judge said.

The petitioner, Sirajuddin, a resident of Belthangady taluk in Dakshina Kannada district, had challenged the FIR registered against him at the CEN (Cyber, Economics and Narcotics) police station, Mangaluru, for offences under Section 295A of the IPC and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act. Section 295A relates to punishment for deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage the religious feelings of any class of citizens.

According to the complaint filed by K Jayaraj Salian, also a resident of Belthangady taluk, he received a WhatsApp group link from an unknown source and was added to the group after accessing it. The group reportedly had six administrators and around 250 participants, where obscene and offensive images depicting Hindu deities and certain political figures were allegedly circulated repeatedly.

Sirajuddin was arrested in connection with the case and later released on bail on February 16, 2021. He argued before the court that he was being selectively targeted, while other administrators—including the creator of the group—were neither arrested nor investigated. He also contended that the Magistrate could not have taken cognisance of the offence under Section 295A without prior sanction under Section 196(1) of the CrPC.

Rejecting the argument, Justice Nagaprasanna held that prior sanction is required only at the stage of taking cognisance, and not at the stage of registration of the crime or during investigation.

The judge noted that the State had produced the entire investigation material before the court. “A perusal of the material reveals depictions of Hindu deities in an extraordinarily obscene, demeaning and profane manner. The content is such that its reproduction in a judicial order would itself be inappropriate,” the court said, adding that the material, on its face, had the tendency to outrage religious feelings and disturb communal harmony.

Observing that the case was still at the investigation stage, the court said it could not interdict the probe at this juncture. However, it expressed concern that the investigating officer appeared to have not proceeded uniformly against all administrators. The court clarified that if the investigation revealed the active involvement of any member in permitting the circulation of such content, they must also be proceeded against.

“At this investigative stage, any further observation by this Court would be unnecessary,” the order concluded.

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