Will bomb office if power cut when 'KGF' is on TV: M’luru electricity office gets threat

Threat

Yash-starrer ‘KGF: Chapter 1’ is scheduled to be broadcast on television at 7 pm on March 30.

Prajwal Bhat

A MESCOM (Mangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited) office in Shivamogga’s Bhadravati received a letter threatening to burn down and bomb the office if power was cut during the television premiere of the Yash-starrer KGF: Chapter 1. The movie is scheduled to be broadcast on television at 7 pm on March 30. The letter addressed to the executive engineer of the MESCOM office in Bhadravathi was sent anonymously. The letter, which police believe was written by a self-proclaimed Yash fan, warned officials that if there was a power cut during the premiere of KGF: Chapter 1, then they would burn down the MESCOM office. "If you cut power on March 30 during the airing of KGF film, you will not be there and your office will also not be there. We will burn it down," states the letter. The letter also asked the officials not to 'yield to political pressure' from Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and cut power and if so, a bomb will be set off in the office premises. "If you yield to pressure from HD Kumaraswamy and cut the power, we will prepare a bomb for your office," adds the letter. Bhadravati police have registered a case against unknown persons and have stated that they will be providing security to the MESCOM office.    KGF: Chapter 1 was released in December 2018 in five languages – Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi. Yash is a very popular Kannada actor and was recently seen campaigning with Sumalatha Ambareesh, an independent candidate from the Mandya constituency in the Lok Sabha elections, who will be going up against HD Kumaraswamy’s son. Sumalatha has been embroiled in an intense political campaign against Nikhil Kumaraswamy. Yash and Darshan, who were seen campaigning for Sumalatha, were previously warned by JD(S) MLA Narayana Gowda that they will face consequences for their action of supporting her and campaigning against HD Kumaraswamy’s son.

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BJP's Tejasvi Surya gets court to bar media from publishing 'derogatory' news on him?

Elections 2019

Tejasvi’s counsel had moved court seeking an injunction on media outlets from publishing ‘defamatory, derogatory’ news about the BJP candidate.

Sanyukta Dharmadhikari

PTI

This is perhaps for the time in Karnataka that a candidate standing for elections has approached court for a gag order on media. BJP candidate Tejasvi Surya, who is contesting in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Bengaluru South constituency has asked a city court to bar forty-four media outlets in India and five global digital media companies from publishing ‘defamatory and derogatory’ content about him The candidate’s counsel had moved the city civil court in Bengaluru seeking an injunction order to media outlets to bar them from publishing ‘defamatory and derogatory publications’ against him. “Our client has instituted the suit against all of you... restraining you from publishing defamatory, derogatory publications as against our client,” the injunction notice sent to the various media houses by Tejasvi’s counsel states. The notice names 45 media houses, from English and Kannada newspapers to various TV channels. The notice has also been sent to Google, WhatsApp, YouTube, Facebook and Yahoo. “Needless to state here that any violation of the interim order would render you liable for serious repercussions and consequences thereof. In the view of the foregoing, you are not at liberty to publish any scandalous and defamatory statements or any fake news as against our Client,” the notice to the media outlets states. TNM reached out to Tejasvi’s counsel Sudharsan Suresh, who said that such an injunction became necessary following the nature of news coverage about his client following his nomination. Though the notice said that the court had issued an injunction order, the lawyer is yet to recieve a certified copy and it has not been uploaded on the court website. “There have been many defamatory and scandalous articles being published all over against him. So we had to get this injunction filed. There was news about him being a radical person, anything that would affect or tarnish his image within the right-thinking people in the society. That is just not done. Just after he filed his nomination, people started spreading canards about him,” the advocate told TNM. Tejasvi Surya has been at the centre of controversy since his candidature was announced. The 28-year-old was chosen over Tejaswini Kumar, the wife of late Union Minister Ananth Kumar who held the Bengaluru South seat until his demise last year. While the state BJP leadership rooted for Tejaswini,  RSS leaders in the state had backed Tejasvi Surya's candidature from the constituency. Sources in the BJP had told TNM earlier that the RSS and the BJP national leadership was of the opinion that Tejaswini Ananth Kumar was not an eligible candidate, especially if the party had to retain its bastion in the long run. Shortly after he filed his nomination, several old controversial tweets of the young BJP leader surfaced on social media. Critics have also accused Tejasvi of making polarising statements in the past. In a tweet from 2014, which now stands deleted, Tejasvi Surya had said that he would dread the day the Women's Reservation Bill is passed. Another video in which he claims that "if people are not with Modi, they are anti-India" was also circulated after the news of his candidature spread. The Karnataka Congress also tweeted out #MeToo allegations against him.

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28-year-old doctor from Raichur found dead in the US in mysterious circumstances

Death

Manideep Nandigam was found dead in the premises of the New Jersey hospital where he worked.

TNM Staff

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Manideep Nandigam, a 28-year-old doctor hailing from Raichur in Karnataka, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in New Jersey in the United States. Manideep, who was a final year post graduate student at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, was found dead on the hospital premises. His family was informed about his demise on Thursday. According to news reports, he had stayed over at a relative’s place on Wednesday and had gone to the hospital to work on Thursday, the day he died. His relatives were informed about his passing, and they in turn informed his parents back home. Manideep reportedly belonged to an agricultural family residing in Gandhi Nagar in Raichur’s Sindhanur taluk. As the reasons behind his death remain unknown, his distraught parents have demanded an investigation into the matter. While his father Srinivas is engaged in agriculture, his second son and Manideep’s brother works as a software engineer in Bengaluru. Manideep had completed his MBBS from Kasturba Medical College in Manipal after which he went to New Jersey to pursue his post graduation.  He had begun working in his last year at the Saint Peter’s University Hospital. Accordin to his Facebook bio, he was also a student at the Sri Ramakrishna Vidyashala, a residential school for boys, in Mysuru in Karnataka. As per The Hindu, senior police officials in Raichur are in touch with Manideep’s family and are awaiting the investigation into his death to ascertain cause. The Telugu Association of North America (TANA) is also in touch with the Indian Embassy and authorities at the St Peter’s Hospital, and is trying to ensure that Manideep’s body can be sent back home to India soonest.   

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Promised mobiles, received vegetable cutters: B’luru police busts ‘lucky dip’ scam

Crime

Tele-callers told victims that they have won a lucky dip prize by which they will receive phones made by Lenovo and other brands.

TNM Staff

Bengaluru Cyber Crime police have busted a 'lucky dip scam' running for the last four years in which tele-callers told victims that they had won branded mobile phones as part of a 'lucky dip'.  The Cyber Crime Division of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested Suhail Khan, a 60-year-old resident of Venkateshpuram in Bengaluru for orchestrating the scam. According to the Cyber Crime Division, Suhail was collecting mobile phone numbers of people through various means. He had also appointed people as tele callers for making phone calls to residents of Karnataka and its neighboring states. The callers claimed that they have won a lucky dip prize by which they will receive phones made by Lenovo and other brands. The accused convinced victims by claiming that they had to pay only the postal charges and they would receive a phone and could also gift a phone to a friend.  However, while sending the parcels, the accused packed items like vegetable cutters, juice makers and other kitchen and household items instead of mobile phones. The parcels were packed in a systematic manner and sent to the post office by means of value payable post (VPP). Victims received the parcels by paying VPP charges to the postal department and the amount was later claimed by the accused in Bengaluru.  The scam was being carried out for the last four years under the guise of companies like RK Marketing, SK World and A-One Marketing. Suhail and others accused of the scam would send two kinds of parcels of Rs. 1400 and Rs. 2300.  Cyber crime police led by DySP Raghavendra Hegde and Yashwanth Kumar found the office from where tele-callers used to call the victims. Police also seized mobile phones, laptops and other articles valued at Rs. 26,00,000 from the godown in which Suhail operated.    

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Bike-borne men snatch Rs 13 lakh from woman at IISc premises in Bengaluru

Crime

The woman had arranged the money to secure a medical seat for a friend's sister, according to reports.

TNM Staff

A woman was reportedly robbed of Rs 13 lakh by two men on a two-wheeler inside the premises of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Sadashivanagar in Bengaluru. The incident occurred on March 26. The victim Revathi (38) is a resident of Vijayanagar and works as a social worker, according to reports. The money was meant to arrange a medical seat for a friend's sister in a private college in Bengaluru. Through her friends, Revathi found out about an agent, identified as Vinod. Vinod and his friend Rakesh promised a medical seat to Revathi if she paid Rs 13 lakh and Rakesh and asked her to procure the money, reported The Hindu. Running from pillar to post, she finally managed to arrange for the money with help from friends and also by pledging her property documents. But on Tuesday, the deal took an ugly turn for Revathi as two men approached her on a bike and snatched the bag away as she was walking into the IISc campus. Revathi cried out for help, but the two men quickly fled from the spot. Revathi reportedly tried to call Vinod, who was supposed to meet her at the location, but he did not respond. She later filed a complaint at the Sadashivanagar Police Station, according to The Hindu. The police suspect Rakesh and Vinod had planned and engineered the robbery together, and are investigating the incident. The police suspect that they laid a trap for the victim since Vinod did not respond to Revathi's calls on the day of the meeting even though he had chosen the meeting spot and had instructed her to come to the IISc campus for the exchange. The police are also analysing CCTV footage inside the campus to identify the culprits. “The security personnel posted at the gate was only check incoming vehicles and visitors, but cars going out of the campus pass unchecked,” a senior police officer said, speaking to Deccan Herald. Further investigations are underway.  

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After 33 withdrawals, 241 candidates in fray for first phase of Karnataka LS polls

Elections 2019

Among the key withdrawals is that of sitting Congress MP Muddahanumegowda who had threatened to contest as a rebel candidate from Tumakuru against HD Deve Gowda.

IANS

As many as 241 candidates are in the fray for 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka for the first phase of polling on April 18 after the last date of withdrawals on Friday, said an official. "With 33 withdrawals after scrutiny of 274 validly nominated candidates on Wednesday, the number of contestants in 14 parliamentary seats is 241," said an official of the state's chief electoral officer in a statement. Among the key withdrawals was that of sitting Congress MP Muddahanumegowda who confirmed on Friday that he will not be contesting from the Tumakuru seat as an independent candidate.  Tumakuru was the only seat handed over by the Congress to the JD(S) in spite of an incumbent MP from the party ready to contest. Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda will now contest from Tumakuru as the sole coalition candidate.  Among all constituencies, Bangalore North has the highest number of 31 candidates, followed by 25 in Bangalore South and 22 each in Bangalore Central, Mandya and Mysore. The least number of candidates is six in Hassan, followed by 10 in Chamarajnagar, 12 in Udupi-Chikkmagalur and 13 in Dakshina Kannada. Congress leader Pramod Madhwaraj is contesting on a JD(S) ticket from Udupi-Chikkamagaluru, while another Congress leader Amrit Shenoy is contesting as an independent candidate.  Meanwhile, Kolar saw maximum withdrawals of six, followed by four each in Chitradurga, Mandya and Tumkur. There were no withdrawals in Bangalore South and Dakshina Kannada, while it was one each in Bangalore North and Hassan and two each in Bangalore Central, Bangalore Rural, Chamarajnagar, Chikkaballapur and Udupi-Chikkamagalur. There were 362 candidates who filed nominations by the last date on March 26 for the first phase, after notification on March 19.

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