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Sadashiva
panel hearing again in March:
The Justice Sadashiva Commission, hearing alleged STF
atrocities on the villagers during forest brigand
Veerappan operation in 1990-93, has adjourned its next
five days sitting for March 19. Justice Sadashiva and
former CBI Director Narasimhan, who is also in this panel,
hearing the STF men excesses, here at Dasoha Bhavan in
Malai Mahadheshwara Hills have recorded 14 cases.
Former
MLA K P Shanthamurthy joins Congress:
Former MLA and All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha State
Former President K P Shanthamurthy has again joined
congress party. Shanthamurthy had earlier won the
elections on a congress ticket from Hannur Constituency in
1983. He later joined Janata Party and contested
Parliamentary elections from Mysore Parliamentary
Constituency against Shrikantadutta Narasimharaja Wodeyar
and lost with a narrow margin.
Religious
jatha at Suttur village:
Kannada and Culture Minister Rani Sathish called upon the
people to educate and provide technological inputs in to
innocent farmers. Speaking after inaugurating a religious
jatha commemorating the birth anniversary of the JSS math
founder pontiff Sri Shivarathri Shivayogi Swamiji, she
said it is a social responsibility to provide information
on agriculture to farmers.
Bengali
student denied admission to BDS course, threatens suicide:
Kankana Das, a student from West Bengal, who lost almost a
year seeking a seat in a private dental college in Mysore,
has threatened to commit suicide before the college
protesting the indifferent attitude of the college
management. Kankana and her father were staying in
Bangalore for the last 3 months trying to get a dental
seat in the college. She said the Director of Medical
Education had also directed the college to admit Kankana.
"All orders were turned down by the Secretary of the
college who sought Rs. 1 lakh for admission," she
said.
150
Maharani's Arts College students ill after hostel dinner:
About 150 students of Maharani's Arts College who took ill
after consuming dinner at their college hostel were
admitted to K R Hospital. Hospital authorities suspected
food poisoning while not ruling out water contamination.
The students after partaking of dinner, developed acute
stomachache and were taken to hospital late in the night.
The college hostel has around 270 inmates. Dinner was
served at 8 PM. It contained rice and curry with
vegetables. Meanwhile, the city corporation health
officers have secured water samples to ascertain whether
contaminated water was the reason for the sickness.
I was
tortured by the STF for belonging to Veerappan's caste:
Amase, wife of a one-time close aide of Veerappan, Meke
Rangaswamy, suffered for almost a decade at the hands of
the STF. Deposing before the Sadashiva Commission of
Inquiry, she failed to recollect the date and year when
she was picked up by the STF. However, what she was sure
of was the fact that around 7 PM one day, 30-odd Tamil
Nadu STF men walked into her tiny house. Amase, who was
acquitted by the Special TADA court, recently, claimed
that she pleaded with them to spare her as she had lost
her ten-day old child that day and was yet to get over the
grief.
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