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Cylinder blast executed at Kannada film set kills mother and 8-yr-old daughter
Cylinder blast executed at Kannada film set kills mother and 8-year-old daughter.
A planned cylinder blast to shoot an action sequence for Kannada film Ranam turned tragic on Friday when a mother-daughter duo who were watching the shoot were killed on the spot. The film crew was shooting a car blast sequence in Bagalur Industrial Area, when the debris from the car hit a family of four. Sumera (28) and Arya (8) were killed in the blast, and the father and another child were injured and are admitted to a hospital in Yelahanka. According to MN Reddi, DG of Fire Services, the film's crew had not obtained any prior permission to shoot the blast sequence. "They have to obtain police and fire department permission and had not taken prior permission to shoot the scene," he told TNM. Ranam, starring Chethan Ahimsa and Chiranjeevi Sarja, is a V Samudra directorial. According to Chethan, he was not at the spot when the incident happened. “I wasn’t at the set. I was at the set yesterday to shoot an action sequence, but today I wasn’t there. They were shooting a blast. It is very tragic, what has happened,” Chethan told TNM, adding that he was on the way to the site of the accident to find out more. "I really do not know anything about whether they had taken permission for the sequence. My portion of the shoot was completed six months ago. Mine is only a guest appearance. I was in Mysuru today for another shoot and got back only an hour ago. I don't know what exactly happened since I was not there," Chiranjeevi Sarja told TNM. Initial reports point to negligence on the part of the film crew. "These type of stunts are done in a highly controlled and monitored atmosphere. The gas level in the cylinder is fixed by stunt masters so that the explosion level is fixed. This way, uncontrolled bursting or flying of parts is mitigated,” an experienced stunt master who works in the south Indian film industries explained to TNM. “Secondly, no bystanders or rest of the cast and crew are allowed anywhere close to the explosion. It will just be the stunt crew and the people who fix the cylinder. Even the camera is fixed far away from the scene. Finally, to shoot a scene on the road, we need to get prior permission from the district collector or the chief of police and specify which area we will be shooting in," he added.
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Several Bengaluru home buyers left in the lurch after delay in Mantri project
Home buyers who invested in the project have been issued show cause notices for not paying their dues to a bank, Mantri told TNM that they will complete the project fast.
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The dream of owning a house of their own in Bengaluru has turned into a nightmare for many families, a majority of who are middle-class. Not only has their hope of owning a home come under a cloud, they are getting sued for defaulting on their loans for a home that does not exist. In 2014, Mantri Developers, a known name in the real estate sector, had published advertisements of a scheme where buyers had the option of paying a down payment of 20% with the remaining 80% paid through a bank loan serviced by EMIs. The project, named Mantri Webcity and located on the Hennur Main Road near Southern Asia Bible College in north Bengaluru, was marketed as a web themed township. What lured the buyers was that Mantri promised to pay back the EMIs for the first three years before the possession of the flat as part of the agreement after receiving 20% of the cost upfront from the buyers. Moreover, buyers also had the option of choosing to sell their property at the end of three years and get double the amount invested. However, buyers were told that the home loan for this project should only be availed through Punjab National Bank (PNB), to which the buyers agreed As promised by Mantri, the first group of apartments were set to be delivered by mid-2015, but much to their distress, buyers allege that even in March 2019 there has been little progress in the work. Abhineeta Raghunath, one of the buyers, said, “No work has happened since 2016. We often do not get a timely response from Mantri. Then there are customer care personnel who speak with us and give us assurances that the project will be completed by so and so date. But when asked to give it in writing, they never do that. This means that we are holding onto a hope which is constantly being shattered.” Abhineeta’s family, like many of the buyers, took a loan of Rs 62 lakh to pay for the house and is now struggling to pay the EMI of Rs 60,000 upwards. There are many more such families, Abhineeta said, who have bigger loans and are now being held hostage with unaffordable EMIs. She added, “Now after three years, 200 of us buyers have united and organised ourselves. We have filed 59 RERA (Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016) cases. Some of us have filed cases against PNB too for paying the entire amount to Mantri against the Reserve Bank of India guidelines. The latest date promised by Mantri for the project completion is March 220, but the buyers claim that it is practically impossible for that to happen as there has been no progress since 2016. Double trouble As many of the buyers struggle to pay PNB the EMIs apart from having to pay rent for their current residence or make alternative arrangements elsewhere, they have been served legal notices. “We have been issued legal notices and threatened that our houses will be auctioned to recover the loan amount,” Abhineeta said. Ashish Gupta, another buyer, said that he has now been forced to engage a lawyer in Delhi to fight an arbitration case initiated by PNB against him. “I, along with a couple of people, have launched a complaint with the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission. But Mantri is delaying the proceedings. At least now they have admitted that they have acknowledged our agreement and stated that they will eventually fulfil it,” Ashish said. Legal recourse Bengaluru-based lawyer Faizan Asad said the buyers can seek relief from the court. “All the 200 consumers should file a police complaint against the builder and approach the High Court for relief by filing a writ petition based on these numerous complaints,” he said. He also said the buyers can approach the Competition Commission of India if the builder is a dominant entity in the market and is using his dominant position to the detriment of the buyers. Snehal Mantri, director of the real estate company, admitted that there has been a delay of two years. She said, “It is nothing like that the project is not getting completed. It has got a little delayed as you know everybody in the industry has got delayed due to various factors. So now we are handing over in phases, which we have already committed. And it is nothing that the delay has gone beyond. But definitely, as per RERA, we will adhere to the dates as per RERA that we have already committed. This is the only project that has got delayed, tomorrow onwards you will see that the project is going in full swing.” She added, “I know the customers have got little irritated. But ultimately we have to complete the project as their dream home. The compensation will be as per our agreement which we anyway give it if there is a delay.”
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