Concern over delay of police clearance for passports for applications submitted by minorities

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September 8, 2012

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Bangalore, September 8: Undue delays in issue of police clearance certificates for passport applications submitted by minorities, topped a slew of issues raised during an interaction between elected representatives, NGOs, representatives of various forums and National?Commission for Minorities Vice-Chairman H?T?Sangliana in Bangalore on Friday.

Speaking during the interaction, Congress MLA?N?A Harris charged that minorities were facing problems while obtaining police clearance certificates for passports and sought to know the reason for the same. “There is an inordinate delay in police clearance. During my four-and-a-half-year tenure as MLA, only people from minority communities come to me with this problem.?Why cannot minorities be treated on par with others,” he questioned.

Sangliana said he would take up the matter during his internal discussions with top government officials.

Another Congress MLA?Tanveer Sait said government had stipulated that an educational institution should have 75 per cent of students from minority community to be declared a minority institution. Sait said if the norm was followed there would be no minority educational institution in the State and sought the government to relax the norm.

Sait said there was delay in sanctioning of scholarships to minority students. He also urged the government to petition the Centre to enhance the quantum of grants provided as scholarships to minority students.

State Minority Commission chief Anwar Manippady claimed that some minority educational institutions were collecting donations from minority students.

“The privileges being provided to minority institutions is to ensure that they provide quality education for the students. However, by collecting donations from minority students, they are defeating the very purpose of their existence,” he said.

The meeting also discussed the hardships being faced by educational institutions in getting minority status certificate from the State government. Chief Secretary S?V?Ranganath, who was present at the meeting, said efforts would be made to simplify the procedure.

Congress legislator U?T?Khader pointed out that a Cabinet meeting on Thursday had dropped charges on various ABVP?activists, at a time when the same group had attacked a girl for not responding to their college bandh call this week.

Sangliana said he had taken note of the matter and had already discussed the same when he had called on Chief Minister Jagadish?Shettar earlier in the day.

An invitee to the meeting sought that the police officers from the minority communities be deployed in areas with large population of minorities. Sangliana said the commission had already taken programmes for resensitisation of police with respect to minority communities.

Tanveer Sait drew attention to the shortage of staff in the minority welfare department and pointed out that even Cadre and Recruitment (C&R) rules had not been framed. Ranganath said he will attend to the matter on top priority.

Home Secretary V?Umesh, ADGP?(Law and Order) Bipin Gopalkrishna and Minority Department Principal Secretary P?B?Ramamurthy were present.

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May 14,2024

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Mangaluru, May 14: The Met department has sounded a yellow alert in 13 districts of Karnataka including the three coastal districts of Udupi, Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada for next four days. 

The other districts are Belagavi, Dharwad, Haveri, Chikkamagalur, Chitradurga, Hassan, Kodagu, Mandya, Ramanagara, Shivamogga. These districts are expected to received 6-11 cm of rain, the department said.

On Monday Dakshina Kannada and Udupi experienced a monsoon-like atmosphere. Rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, began in most parts on Sunday evening. In Udupi, rain showered in the early hours of Monday. While Kundapur and Udupi received moderate rains, Karkala experienced a heavy downpour.

The showers lowered the daytime temperature in both districts. Light rain fell in Mangaluru and its outskirts early Monday morning. Mangaluru city recorded a maximum temperature of 33.4°C and a minimum of 23.2°C on Monday. This is expected to decrease by two to four degrees in the next four days, according to the weather department. 

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May 10,2024

Mangaluru: A teenage boy from a remote village in Dakshina Kannada district, who was undergoing treatment for stomach pain for past few days, breathed his last after hospitalization. 

The deceased has been identified as Nithin Kumar, 19, who had completed PUC and was attending computer classes. 

According to police, on May 4, when he informed his family that he had been suffering from a stomach-ache for the past 4-5 days, his family members took him to a clinic in Kaniyoor.

The doctors who examined him advised him to undergo scanning. He was informed about a kidney stone and later, they returned home. That same night, he suffered from stomach-ache again and was rushed to a private hospital in Puttur.

On May 7, as per doctors’ advice, he was discharged around 12:45pm. However, when he came home around 2:30pm, he again suffered from stomach-ache and was taken to another private hospital in Puttur, where doctors conducted a surgery.

On Wednesday, as per doctors’ advice, he was asked to be shifted to Mangaluru for better treatment.

He visited a private hospital in Derakatte, where doctors suggested that he be shifted to government Wenlock Hospital.

The doctors who examined him at the Wenlock Hospital declared him dead. A case has been registered at the Bellare police station, and an investigation is on.

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May 6,2024

Bengaluru, May 6: Arrested JD-S MLA H.D. Revanna, the son of former PM H.D. Deve Gowda, on Sunday said that there is no evidence against him in the sex video scandal kidnapping case and that it was a "conspiracy" against him.

Talking to the media, while being taken for a medical test before being produced in front of a court here, Revanna stated that a kidnapping case had been lodged against him though he does not have 'one black mark' against him in his entire career of 40 years.

"Without evidence, I have been targeted... All allegations against me are false. My arrest has been made out of ill intention," he claimed.

"The case was lodged on April 28, then, they did not have any evidence. Later, the fake evidence was created on May 2 and I was fixed," he alleged.

Home Minister Dr G. Parameshwara stated on Sunday that a Blue Corner notice has already been issued against Revanna's son and MP Prajwal Revanna, the prime accused in the sex video scandal, as he is believed to be abroad.

"The Interpol will communicate to all nations and he will be located. Once he is located, the SIT will take a call on how he should be secured and brought back to India," he added.

Revanna was arrested on Saturday on charges of kidnapping one of the victims of the sex video scandal.

Parameshwara further maintained that the arrest of Revanna has saddened JD-S leaders and if action was not taken, the SIT would be blamed too.

Meanwhile, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge refused to comment on the alleged sex video scandal involving Prajwal Revanna.

About Revanna's arrest, he said that the SIT would initiate action as per the law. "Those indulging in such acts must be taught a lesson and justice should be given to the families of victims. No one can escape the law. No one should use this case politically," he stated.

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