'Bid to free rioters': BJP on Karnataka's review of 2020 Bengaluru riots cases
1 year, 4 months ago

'Bid to free rioters': BJP on Karnataka's review of 2020 Bengaluru riots cases

India Today  

The BJP on Wednesday alleged that the Congress government in Karnataka was taking measures to withdraw cases against rioters after the state home minister asked officials for a review of the cases registered after the 2020 Bengaluru riots. Earlier, Congress MLA Tanveer Sait wrote to Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara, for a relook of the arrests made after the 2020 Bengaluru riots that were triggered by an inflammatory Facebook post against Islam. Karnataka Home Minister Parameshwara has endorsed the letter of Shri Tanveer MLA who has requested to withdraw cases against those who pelted stones in DJ HALLI, KG Halli, Hubli and Shimoga. DJ Halli and KG Halli riots were one of the worst in which the rioters set the policeâ€æ pic.twitter.com/UCQaTfNK6q — Basanagouda R Patil July 25, 2023 Taking to Twitter, BJP MLA Yatnal wrote, “Karnataka Home Minister Parameshwara has endorsed the letter of Shri Tanveer MLA who has requested to withdraw cases against those who pelted stones in DJ Halli, KG Halli, Hubli, and Shimoga.” “Siddaramaiah 1.0 government had withdrawn cases against PFI goons, who were responsible for riots and murders of Hindu activists in the state.

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Withdrawal of riot cases under discussion, says Siddaramaiah
1 year, 4 months ago

Withdrawal of riot cases under discussion, says Siddaramaiah

Deccan Chronicle  

BENGALURU: “Withdrawal of cases in DJ Halli and KG Halli riots of Bengaluru city is under discussion at the State Government level,” said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in Bengaluru on Wednesday. It is said that former minister and Congress MLA Tanveer Sait had written a letter to home minister Dr G. Parameshwar asking him to initiate steps to withdraw cases against …

Karnataka home minister orders to examine cases filed in 2020 Bengaluru riots
1 year, 4 months ago

Karnataka home minister orders to examine cases filed in 2020 Bengaluru riots

India Today  

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara has asked officials to examine the request of a Congress MLA to withdraw cases against "innocent" youths and students, who were arrested under "false cases" in connection with protests and riots in the city's DJ Halli and KG Halli, Shivamogga and Hubballi among other places. "It has been requested that innocent youths and students have …

West Bengal violence: Internet services remain suspended, prohibitory order still in force in Hooghly's Rishra
1 year, 8 months ago

West Bengal violence: Internet services remain suspended, prohibitory order still in force in Hooghly's Rishra

India TV News  

West Bengal violence: Amid heavy deployment of the police force in the violence-hit Hooghly district in West Bengal, the internet services continue to remain suspended and the prohibitory order was still in force in Rishra town. Police arrest several people The police officer also said that several people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in Sunday's violence. Bengal governor …

Andhra Pradesh CM consented to withdrawing cases against accused in Amalapuram riot case, says MP
1 year, 9 months ago

Andhra Pradesh CM consented to withdrawing cases against accused in Amalapuram riot case, says MP

The Hindu  

YSR Congress Party Godavari Regional Co-ordinator and MP P.V. Jagan Mohan Reddy had given his consent to withdrawing all the cases registered against the accused in the Amalapuram riots case. Angry protesters set fire to the houses of then Social Welfare Minister Pinipe Viswaroop and Mummudivaram MLA Ponnada Sateesh in Amalapuram town. Viswaroop and Mr. Sateesh had appealed to the …

Congress leaders try to lay siege to CM Bommai\'s residence
1 year, 9 months ago

Congress leaders try to lay siege to CM Bommai\'s residence

Deccan Chronicle  

BENGALURU: Congress leaders on Saturday tried to lay siege to the residence of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Race Course road in Bengaluru city demanding his resignation on moral grounds over the Lokayukta trapping of Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Veerupakshappa Madal’s son Prashanth Madal, Chief Accountant of Bangalore Water Supplies and Sewage Board on Thursday. Meanwhile, Congress leaders took to …

BJP office set on fire in Bengal as protest over Prophet remarks turns violent
2 years, 6 months ago

BJP office set on fire in Bengal as protest over Prophet remarks turns violent

India Today  

A Bharatiya Janata Party office in Howrah’s Uluberia area was allegedly ransacked and burned by protestors on Friday, June 10. “Since they listen to her and unfailingly vote for her, West Bengal Chief Minister & Home-Police Minister Mamata Banerjee should be able to identify and arrest these rioters and pelters who vandalised and set fire to the BJP office in …

K'taka CM says Hubballi rioters will be tried as per existing law
2 years, 8 months ago

K'taka CM says Hubballi rioters will be tried as per existing law

Hindustan Times  

Amid demands from a section of right-wing organisations for ‘bulldozer’-kind of action to those involved in the Hubballi violence, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday said those involved in the incident will be tried as per the existing laws. To a question on whether bulldozers will be used to bring down the buildings of the alleged rioters as was …

Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Outrage pours in over incident; political leaders arrested, some put under house arrest
3 years, 2 months ago

Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Outrage pours in over incident; political leaders arrested, some put under house arrest

Firstpost  

Union Minister Ajay Mishra has maintained that his son was not present at the site At least eight people were killed as violence flared up in Tikunia in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakihmpur Kheri on Sunday, 3 October. The violence occurred after a convoy, allegedly that of junior Union minister Ajay Mishra Teni’s son Ashish, mowed down farmers who were participating in …

Muzaffarnagar Riots: Mayawati Demands Withdrawal of Cases Against All Oppn Leaders
3 years, 11 months ago

Muzaffarnagar Riots: Mayawati Demands Withdrawal of Cases Against All Oppn Leaders

News 18  

BSP president Mayawati on Friday demanded that cases lodged against Opposition leaders in the state should be withdrawn as is being done with cases on BJP leaders in connection of the Muzaffarnagar communal riots. “In addition to withdrawal of cases filed in the spirit of ‘political malice’ against BJP leaders in UP, similar cases lodged against all opposition leaders should …

Bengaluru riots case: NIA raids 43 locations including SDPI offices
4 years, 1 month ago

Bengaluru riots case: NIA raids 43 locations including SDPI offices

India Today  

The National Investigating Agency on Wednesday raided the offices of the Social Democratic Party of India, the political wing of Popular Front of India, in connection with the Bengaluru riots case. The central probe agency conducted searches at 43 locations, including four SDPI offices, in connection with rioting and violent attacks on DJ Halli and KG Halli Police Stations in …

Bengaluru judge receives bomb threats demanding the release of accused in Bengaluru riots
4 years, 2 months ago

Bengaluru judge receives bomb threats demanding the release of accused in Bengaluru riots

Op India  

On Monday, an NDPS magistrate named Seenappa had received two threat letters and a parcel containing explosive materials in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Besides, the threat letter had also demanded the release of ‘innocent people’ arrested for his involvement in the Bengaluru riots in DJ Halli and KG Halli. Bengaluru Riots: CDR accessed by TIMES NOW hint at Congress hand even as …

Bengaluru riots chargesheet names 2 Congress leaders, claims they instigated mob
4 years, 2 months ago

Bengaluru riots chargesheet names 2 Congress leaders, claims they instigated mob

India Today  

The Central Crime Branch probing the August 11 violence in parts of Bengaluru over an alleged inflammatory social media post, has filed a preliminary chargesheet in the case in a local court. Besides Raj, Congress corporator of Pulakeshinagar, Abdul Rakeeb Zakir, has also been named as accused in the 850-page preliminary chargesheet furnished in the court In the 850-page chargesheet …

DJ Halli violence: CSOs appeal Bengaluru police to widen probe
4 years, 3 months ago

DJ Halli violence: CSOs appeal Bengaluru police to widen probe

India TV News  

A fact-finding committee formed by several Bengaluru based civil society organisation appealed to the Bengaluru City Police to widen the scope of investigation against the alleged Facebook post believed to have led to the same. Key findings by the committee: The Facebook post uploaded by accused P. Naveen, nephew of Pulkeshi Nagar MLA Akhanda Srinivas Murthy crosses the constitutional protection …

Damage caused during Bengaluru violence to be recovered from rioters: CM
4 years, 4 months ago

Damage caused during Bengaluru violence to be recovered from rioters: CM

Op India  

Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa has taken to Twitter to inform that the Karnataka government has decided to recover the cost of public and private properties destroyed in the Bengaluru violence last week, from the rioters. He asserted that stringent action has been initiated against the culprits of DJ Halli and KG Halli violent incidents including invoking of the Unlawful Activities …

Bengaluru violence: Politics as usual, a riot of blame game begins
4 years, 4 months ago

Bengaluru violence: Politics as usual, a riot of blame game begins

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: Riots and unrest prevailed in the silicon valley Bengaluru after the house of Pulakeshinagar MLA Akhanda Srinivas Murthy was burnt down and two police stations in Bengaluru were vandalised over a objectionable social media post hurting the sentiments of a community. While Congress despatched a fact finding committee headed by former Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar, who himself …

Opinion | Bengaluru riots: Punish the Perpetrators
4 years, 4 months ago

Opinion | Bengaluru riots: Punish the Perpetrators

India TV News  

Curfew has been clamped in Banaswadi police sub-division of Bengaluru city and prohibitory orders under Sec 144 have been enforced in several areas till August 15 in view of violent attacks by mobs on Tuesday night. The videos show people distributing packets to armed mobs before they forcibly entered two police stations. The man, Mudassir Ahmed, in his messages, was …

Bengaluru violence: Confiscate rioters' properties like Yogi Adityanath did: Karnataka MP Tejasvi Surya
4 years, 4 months ago

Bengaluru violence: Confiscate rioters' properties like Yogi Adityanath did: Karnataka MP Tejasvi Surya

India TV News  

Bengaluru South Member of Parliament Tejasvi Surya on Wednesday advised Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. "I request Yediyurappa to confiscate and attach the properties of the rioters and compensate the losses to public property in the same way as the Adityanath government did in Uttar Pradesh," the BJP MP said. He criticized former Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president Dinesh Gundu Rao …

Bengaluru violence: Narrative of 'communal tensions' misleading; turf war between BJP, Congress, SDPI behind clashes
4 years, 4 months ago

Bengaluru violence: Narrative of 'communal tensions' misleading; turf war between BJP, Congress, SDPI behind clashes

Firstpost  

Three people died due to police firing in Bengaluru’s Devarajeevanahalli and Kadugodanahalli after violence and arson in the areas Three people died late on Tuesday night due to police firing in Bengaluru’s Devarajeevanahalli and Kadugodanahalli after violence and arson in the areas. However, tensions had been rising throughout the past week over Facebook posts by Congress MLA from Pulakeshinagar R …

Bengaluru riots: Delay in filing police complaint against Naveen 'angered' Muslim mob, SDPI blames police for violence
4 years, 4 months ago

Bengaluru riots: Delay in filing police complaint against Naveen 'angered' Muslim mob, SDPI blames police for violence

Op India  

A day after radical Islamic organisation Social Democratic Party of India led a violent Muslim mob to unleash riots on the streets of Bengaluru, the Islamist organisation has pushed the blame on the Bengaluru police for the horrific riots that has killed three people and injuring more than 60 police personnel. Defending the actions of SDPI leaders and the Muslim …

Damages will be recovered from Bengaluru rioters, says Karnataka Home Minister
4 years, 4 months ago

Damages will be recovered from Bengaluru rioters, says Karnataka Home Minister

Op India  

Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai has stated that the people responsible for the riots and damages to property will be held accountable and the cost of damages will be recovered from them. JUST IN: Damage inflicted in east Bengaluru violence will be recovered from property of rioters, as per Supreme Court guidelines, says Karnataka Home Minister @BSBommai. pic.twitter.com/PAzzSMzyFq — Shiv …

The Bengaluru riots point towards a well-planned conspiracy
4 years, 4 months ago

The Bengaluru riots point towards a well-planned conspiracy

Op India  

On 11th August 2020, after shopping and purchases for Sri Krishna Janmashtami, Bengaluru was preparing for the next day. They also set fire to the patrol vehicle belonging to KG Halli/DG Halli police station. A simple question for those people – If their anger was against Congress MLA, whey were they asking names of people going on the streets and …

Bengaluru violence: 3 killed in police firing after mob vandalises Congress MLA's home over social media post
4 years, 4 months ago

Bengaluru violence: 3 killed in police firing after mob vandalises Congress MLA's home over social media post

Firstpost  

Bengaluru Police Commissioner has said that the accused has been arrested for posting derogatory posts and 110 people have been arrested for arson, stone-pelting, and assault on police Three people killed and around 60 police personnel have been injured after violent clashes broke out in the eastern part of Bengaluru on Tuesday night over a Facebook message posted allegedly by …

3 killed in Bengaluru violence, 200 cars burnt, man behind communal FB post held: Top developments
4 years, 4 months ago

3 killed in Bengaluru violence, 200 cars burnt, man behind communal FB post held: Top developments

India Today  

A Facebook post laced with communal remarks sparked violent clashes in Bengaluru on Tuesday night in which a mob vandalised a police station and the residence of a Congress MLA. Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant said, “Accused Naveen has been arrested for sharing derogatory posts on social media.” It was alleged by the mob that the post was made by …

Bengaluru: 2 dead, 60 cops injured after mob vandalises Congress MLA's house over communal FB post
4 years, 4 months ago

Bengaluru: 2 dead, 60 cops injured after mob vandalises Congress MLA's house over communal FB post

India Today  

Two people died in police firing after angry mobs attacked a Congress MLA's house in Bengaluru as a communal social media post shared allegedly by the leader's relative sparked outrage and clashes broke out in DJ Halli and KG Halli police station areas of the city. pic.twitter.com/QsAALZycs0 — ANI August 11, 2020 Hundreds of people pelted stones at Pulakeshinagar MLA …

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