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The police have started seizing mics from religious places for defying the High Court (HC) order on noise pollution.

As part of the awareness drive, several mics have been seized from religious places for defying the court order and the police have booked cases under appropriate sections.

The drive will continue to monitor the prescribed decibel levels,and action will be taken against violators,Kamal Pant,City Police Commissioner, said .

In the wake of the campaign against Azaan by hindu activist, Mr. Pant, has instructed jurisdictional police to take legal action against violators and ensure law and order .

According to police sources,notices have also been issued to all the parties concerned from the pollution control board.

However,when contacted,Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) officials refused to acknowledge the notices or comment on the issue.

According to the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules,2000,restrictions on the use of loud speakers/public address system include not using one “except after obtaining written permission from the authority,and not using a loud speaker/public address system at night between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

except in closed premises for communication within – auditoriam,conference rooms,community halls and banquet halls.

The State Government may subject to such terms and conditions as are necessary to reduce noise pollution,permit use of loud speakers or public address systems during night hours (between 10 p.m.to midnight on or during any cultural or religious festive occasion of a limited duration not exceeding fifteen days in all during a calendar year,the rules add.

It may be recalled that six months ago, the south division police had launched a special drive and seized mics, booked cases and issued notices to mosques, temples and other places of worship for using loud speakers in the early hours, causing disturbance .

Security heightened

Meanwhile, security has been heightened in and around religious places, including mosques and temples in and around the city, in the wake of pro-Hindu activists launching a campaign against azaan -the call for prayers.

Police personnel have been deployed at all the religious places to ensure that the HC order on noise pollution should not be violated .

The HC order, given six months ago to all places of worship, puns and industries to keep a check on the sound level and warned to take action.

The police, at their jurisdictional level, organised peace meetings with religious leaders of both communities to inform them about the HC order.

However, Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik has warned the government to remove mics from all the mosques, failing which, he claimed that the protest would be intensified .

The members of pro-Hindu outfits are planning to sing bhajans in temples in the early hours to counter the morning azaan.

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The Banashankari police on Monday arrested a gang of eight unemployed graduates from Andhra Pradesh and recovered 30 bikes worth Rs 68 lakh from them.

The accused have been identified as Vijay Bandi, 25, Hemanth, 27, Gunashekhar Reddy, 30, Bhanumurhy, 25, Purushotham Naidu, 30, Karthik Kumar, 27 and Kiran Kumar, 22 are engineering,

The accused are MBA and diploma graduates from a reputed colleges in Andhra Pradesh started stealing bikes to make quick money.

Senior officer told reporters,Based on a complaint filed by Rakesh,a resident of Thyagarajnagar on March 26, the Banashankari police analyzed the CCTV footages and track down the accused to their home town .

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and it has revealed that the accused have watched youtube and other social media on how to steal bikes without using ignition key and would come to city.

The accused would move around the city to identify bikes parked in front of the houses and steal them by breaking the hand lock and start the bike without keys.

The accused would ride the stolen bikes to their home town and sell it to the people on throwaway prices without documents .

The Banashankari police recovered the bikes stolen from in and around the city and remanded them to judicial custody and further investigations are on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP South,Harish Pandey,ACP,TM Shivakumar,PI,Puttaswamy and his whole team for the exemplary and commendable job done by them in busting the inter-state bike lifting gang and recovered the stolen bikes from them a special reward will be given to whole team he added.

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All measures would be taken to ensure that no community or outfit takes law into its hands.We will take action to maintain peace and order.

All are equal for the State government.We will work without any differentiation or bias,Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

Reacting to former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy’s statement that he would launch a protest against the State government from April 16,Bommai said,everyone has the right to protest.

But I will not respond to baseless statements. BJP is a national party.People of Karnataka have blessed us.

We are confident of giving good governance for the people.Many issues that he has raised are about orders issued in 2001,2002 during the past regimes.I have not issued any new orders,” Bommai said.

Azaan: We will take everyone into confidence

Replying to a question about the Azaan issue, Bommai said, there is a High Court order regarding Azaan.

There is also an order asking as to why it has not been implemented.It even specifies the sound decibel level.There is an order to install Decibel meters.

It is a job which needs to be implemented by taking everyone into confidence, not by force.

Cabinet expansion

As for cabinet expansion, the Chief Minister said that so far no discussion has been held.There is a possibility of the issue coming up if I get an appointment to meet Amit Shah and JP Nadda,” Bommai said.

KT Ramarao’s tweet is ridiculous

In response to a question on Andhra Pradesh IT, BT minister KT Ramarao’s tweet Bommai said, “it is ridiculous. People from all over the world are coming down to Bengaluru. The city is home to highest number of startups and unicorns.”

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The subsidy being paid for the SC/ST communities under the Land Ownership Scheme would be raised to Rs20 lakh from the present Rs15 lakh.A decision to this effect has been taken, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

The Chief Minister in his address at a function to present the Babu Jagjivan Ram award said, the subsidy being paid for construction of homes for the SC,ST communities would be raised to Rs2 lakh from the present Rs1.75 lakh.

Self Employment Scheme

It has been decided to formulate Babu Jagjivan Ram Self Employment Scheme for SC ST communities in every taluk.The scheme would be formulated and introduced within a week, Bommai said.

Free power upto 75 units

The State government has decided to provide free power upto 75 units for SC ST communities in rural areas.A government order to this effect would be issued within a week.

A special scheme to provide training for SC ST students in boarding schools to appear in various competitive exams would be launched this year, Bommai said.

Babu Jagjivan Ram was an epitome of honesty, integrity and commitment.The credit for making India self-sufficient in food grain production through the Green Revolution goes to him, Bommai said.

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Jagjivan Ram was a rare kind of leader and personality, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

Speaking after paying floral tributes to Babu Jagjivan Ram on the occasion of his 115th birth anniversary, Bommai said,born in a poor family in Bihar had to endure insult and humiliation.

Overcoming all the odds he went on to become the Deputy Prime Minister of the country. He is a great leader who discharged his responsibilities with efficiency and diligence.

He was the voice and pride of the Dalits and weaker sections.He strived to deliver justice to the oppressed classes.

The Green Revolution he ushered in as the Union Agriculture minister enabled India to attain self sufficiency in feeding its hungry.

India became self-sufficient in food grain production with the inspiration and leadership of Jagjivan Ram.

He has contributed immensely for the country as the Defence Minister as well.His ideals and principles are our inspiration.

We will pay our real respects to the great leader by providing greater opportunities for the SC ST communities,Bommai said.

Bengaluru: Leader of the Opposition, former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday questioned who has been troubled by loudspeakers that are installed in Temples, Mosques, Churches, and other places of worship.

He further added that as the election is nearing the issue of loudspeakers in mosques is being raised, adding that it was condemnable.

“Temples, Mosques, Churches and similarly all other places have loudspeakers, who has been troubled by this? Since there is an election next year, purposefully such issues are being raised. I condemn this. These are all attempts to ruin societal peace and harmony”, he said.

Siddaramaiah, who was addressing the media representatives at his residence said, “Such instances will hinder the development of the state. No investors will come to the state, neither will jobs be created nor the issue of unemployment be sorted. The state’s GDP will not increase at this rate”, he said.

“All of these developments have been occurring with the permission of the government. The Chief Minister is not just being silent, he is enabling and encouraging this. Will RSS and Bajrang Dal do all of this without the government’s knowledge? The government must take action against those who are trying to ruin societal harmony.”

“I want to tell the Chief Minister that, they must stop ruining the communal harmony within the society, otherwise all of this will come back to you in the coming days”, Siddaramaiah said.

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A decentralized system for waste disposal in the city is needed.In this regard,the bulk waste generators and the bulk waste collection service providers within the BBMP area should take responsibility to get rid of the problem of bulk waste,said the Chief Commissioner,Gaurav Gupta.

Addressing a meeting held at the IPP center in Malleshwaram,today,to discuss the segregation and management of waste at source by bulk waste generators within the BBMP limits,he said that,almost 6000 Metric tonnes of waste is generated per day in the BBMP limits,and among which,1,500 tonnes of waste is being generated by bulk generators.

The problem of waste should be eradicated through a decentralized system for waste disposal even by these bulk waste generators.

Bulk waste generators must establish a waste segregation and management unit within their area of residence or property.

The Bulk waste generators include the residential bulk waste generators (includes the residential complexes which produce more than 100 kg of waste per day or number of units are more than 100 units.

Another category is the institutional bulk waste generators (it includes government institutions, religious,educational institutions,hotels,APMC like market yards,nursery,parks,lodges etc generating more than 100 kg of waste per day).

Further, the commercial ones which includes hotel-restaurants,marriage hall, mall, choultry, shopping complex,supermarket,club,auditorium, petrol bunk,food business operators like confectioneries or ice cream parlours etc.

All of these are supposed to follow solid waste management properly.If there is no separate space for solid waste management,then they can engage authorized waste processing companies to transport the waste to a specific location.But, everything must be in a systematic manner, he said.

If the bulk waste generators does not have space to do in situ composting or set up small Bio Meth plant then they are required to hand over such waste to the Bulk Waste Empanelled Vendors only who are required to collect the waste and process it at their units set up by them exclusively to cater to bulk waste.

Special Commissioner,Dr.Harish Kumar,Joint Commissioner,Parashuram Shinnalkar, Superintendent Engineer,Basavaraj Kabade, Senior Environmental Officer of Karnataka State, Pollution Control Board, Yathish,bulk waste collecting organisations,Chairmans of RWAs, Managers of Dry Waste collection centres,BBMP officials were present in the meeting.

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The Kerala High Court on Monday granted bail to a key accused in the 2017 actress assault case in which actor Dileep is also an accused.

The Court granted relief to fourth accused Vijeesh, who was allegedly involved in the crime.

Last week, the High Court had denied bail to Sunil N S also known as ‘Pulsar Suni, who is the main accused in the case.

The actress-victim, who has worked in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films, was abducted and allegedly molested in her car for two hours by some persons who had forced their way into the vehicle on the night of February 17, 2017 and later escaped in a busy area.

The entire act was filmed by those persons to blackmail the actress.There are 10 accused in the 2017 case and police have arrested seven. Dileep was arrested subsequently and released on bail.

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After halaal cut and preventing muslims vendors to do business in and around the temples, pro-hindu activists have launched campaign against azaan .

Sri Rama Sene Chief Pramod Mutalik and his associates warned the government to remove mics or loudspeakers from mosque which are causing noise pollution and problem to students and aged persons,failing which they would intensify the protest .

The campaign includes playing bhajans at temples everyday at 5 am to counter azan.

Six months ago we had submitted memorandum and requested government to take legal action against the mosques using mics,but nothing has been done, so far.

The campaign is to counter the use of loud speaker and mics in mosques extensively especially during the month of Ramazan.

Meanwhile members of Hindu Kannadiga organization claimed that they will start singing om namah shivaya and Jai Shriram chants at Anjaneya swamy temple in the outskirts of the city at 5 am everyday .

Reacting to this,City police Commissioner Kamal Pant,said that all the places of worship require to strictly follow the directions of the High court .

Any violations attracts contempt proceedings and legal action.He further said that action will also be taken against temple management under violation and contempt he added.

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The Kerala stamp act directs that the value of buildings must be assessed based on Public Work Department’s rate and added while registering title deeds.

Earlier, this rule was made mandatory for flats and apartments.Gradually, all buildings except palm-thatched huts are also brought under this rule.

The Kerala government ordered that value of buildings must be given on title deeds for all land transactions.

As per the rule,the land will be registered after documenting the exact value of the building.But it is observed that nobody is following this rule.

As the government made it mandatory to strictly follow the rule for all land transactions,the registration department was benefited during the last financial year.Income from this also increased revenue of the department.

Approved engineers must examine the building and issue an evaluation certificate for completing the land registration.

With this,8 per cent of stamp duty and 2 per cent of the registration fee must be paid for buildings during land registration.

Years ago,the government had issued an order to make valuation certificate of PWD mandatory for land registration.

But people and officials continued to violate the rule.In some places,the value of buildings was marked as Rs 50 per square feet on title deeds.

After noting this illegal practice, the registration department gave strict directions to registrars.

Following this,land owners started to add the exact value of buildings while registering title deeds.

Complaints on determining value of buildings :

Meanwhile,many people have raised complaints about assessing the value of buildings on their land.

While determining the price, the age of the building must be considered.Sometimes,there is delay in estimating the value when the buildings do not have the number.

Engineers approved by the registration department are refusing to issue valuation certificates fearing action from the department over lapses.

Though the department identified over 3000 engineers for this purpose,only 800 are issuing these certificates.