Karnataka : FIR Registered Against Mohammad Nalapad

The police have registered an FIR against Mohammad Nalapad, the Bengaluru district youth Congress leader and son of Shantinagar MLA N A Haris in Karnataka, 

Mohammad Nalapad has been charged for allegedly beating up a person along with 10 of his supporters in a restaurant last night in UB city of Bengaluru. He has also been accused of threatening the victim at a hospital not to register any police complaint. The state Congress has already expelled Nalapad from the party for six years. 

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has tweeted that he has directed the police to take action as per the rules. Nalapad's whereabouts were not known. The man, identified as Vidwat, has been hospitalised, police said. Nalapad, General Secretary of Bengaluru District Youth Congress, is the son of Shantinagar MLA N A Harris.

According to the FIR, Nalapad and 10 of his supporters thrashed Dollars Colony resident Vidwath after a heated exchange. Vidwath, who already had a fractured leg, was rushed to a nearby hospital, but Nalapad and his supporters reportedly followed him there and threatened against pressing charges.

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Intercaste Marriages Get Life Support

With the incidences of honour killing on the rise in the state, the activists pressing for inter-caste marriages are also gearing up for a fight back. Those who are helping the couples from different communities coming together are themselves coming together in the city to discuss the hideous crimes in recent past and ways to prevent them.

The state has seen two such incidences in the last two months both of which were in Satara district. In the first instance, a Dalit woman was dragged and beaten, also allegedly paraded naked in the village in the month of January. In another instance, a woman was killed by her own father for insisting on marrying outside her community.

On the other hand, some activists are actively encouraging the intercaste or interfaith couples. Members of Maharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmulan Samiti, who register or arrange such marriages are to converge in city on March 18 & 19 to spread awareness about such marriages.

"The idea is to tell people that intercaste marriage is not a shameful thing. The society has to accept it and shed inhibitions about losing one's reputation in the community,” said Dr. Narendra Dabholkar, executive president of MANS.

To imbibe this message, the conference is named as Amhi Purohit Antarjatiy Vivahache (We are priests of intercaste marriages) even though MANS does not encourage religious ceremony for marriage.

Dr. Dabholakr said that to make the interacaste marriages a success, the couples should to be provided four fold support. The couples should be encouraged to shed their caste orientations, they should be provided counseling and other services, there should be institutional system for the protection of these couples and finally the families of the couples should be made aware that these marriages are as natural as other marriages are.

"With this conference, we are doing the same. The members who are participating in the conference will also narrate how difficult it is for them to officiate such marriages and how they deal with such situations,” said Dr. Dabholkar.

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Announcements Galore, Now For Some Action!

Maharashtra government has acquired the habit of taking course to law books whenever the situation seems to go out of control. Giving a classic example of this, the state government has recommended to central government for more punishment for crimes against women.

Home Minister R. R. Patil said in Legislative Council,

"We would send a proposal to the Centre to increase punishment to perpetrators of crime against women and strengthen the laws.

The minister also announced to set up a Women Security Committee comprising women doctors, lawyers, professors and NGO representatives.

Shiv Sena MLC Neelam Gorhe had raised the issue of rise in number of crime cases against women in the state. While Gorhe claimed that

The crime rate against women has gone up by 5.4 per cent in Pune region alone and the government should address the issue.

Patil claimed something otherwise. He said that the crime rate in the state has come down in the last three years.

 

With the controversies over shielding the criminals making it to headlines, it would be better for Patil to reign in the culprits. But as he is accustomed to, he will be more bent on making announcements which hardly can come into reality. For the time being, game of statistics is on while people are scared in the city as well as state.

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One More Minister Arrested In Maharashtra

Another shameful incidence in the Maharashtra politics as police registered a case against Maharashtra Tourism Minister Vijaykumar Gavit, MLA Jaikumar Rawal and 41 others for alleged misappropriation of Rs 16 crore from the Dadasaheb Rawal Cooperative Bank here.
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This is not the first time that ministers and other politicians from the state were in the soup. Surupsingh Naik, the then transport minister was even sent to jail four years ago for contempt of court.  harmrao Baba Atram, the then minister for Adivasi development was arrested on the charges of poaching a Chinkara about two years ago.  At present, Zenda, the Marathi movie directed by Avdhoot Gupte has been withheld from release because of threats from Ritesh Rane, son of Industries minister Narayan Rane.

It has been a sort of ritual for successive governments in the state to have at least one minister making rounds of police stations.

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