BENGALURU: As the state geared up to vaccinate everyone above 45 years of age from Thursday, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar appealed to the eligible people to make use of this protective cover against coronavirus.

Health Minister Sudhakar too tweeted, “As we begin vaccinating all citizens aged above 45 years from today, 5,500 vaccination sites will be operational across the state including 650 private and 4,850 government facilities.”

According to him, 1.5 lakh doses of vaccine is supplied to Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, the civic body, which is distributed to about 600 sites across the state capital.

The Health Department said in a statement that COVID- 19 vaccination will continue at all the primary health centres, community health centres, Taluk hospitals, district hospitals, medical colleges and private hospitals as already being done.

It added that Karnataka has in stock 13.5 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine and 1.5 lakh doses of Covaxin vaccine and it has been supplied to all the cold chain points across the districts as per their requirement.

The government of India has assured the state that additional vaccine doses will be supplied regularly in the coming days as per daily coverage, the department added.

The vaccination drive covering everyone above 45 years of age started at a time when there is an alarming rise in cases in Karnataka.

The state reported 4,225 fresh cases including 26 deaths on a single day on Wednesday.

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Bengaluru: Karnataka government on Wednesday constituted a three-member high-level committee headed by a retired High Court judge Subhash Adi to look into demands by various communities in the state for revising the existing reservation and advise it.

“As per the decision of the Cabinet to examine the demands by various communities on reservation within the constitutional and legal framework, a high-level committee headed by retired High Court judge Subhash Adi has been constituted,” Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa’s office tweeted.

It said retired Chief Secretary Ratna Prabha and professor B V Vasanth Kumar, assistant professor at Maharani Arts College, Mysuru, would be its members.

The state Cabinet had, on March 3, decided to constitute the three-member high-level committee, and authorised the Chief Minister to make appointments to it.

Informing about the decision, Law Minister Basavaraj Bommai had said the retired judge would look into legal and constitutional aspects while the retired administrator would go into administrative aspect.

He had said there would also be a social scientist in the committee, which would give a comprehensive report.

Indicating that it was inevitable to breach the 50 per cent cap if demands are to be fulfilled, Bommai had said if it has to exceed 50 per cent, special criteria has to be identified and the committee would guide the government on this constitutionally and legally.

The state, at present, provides 15 per cent reservation for Scheduled Castes, three per cent for Scheduled Tribes and 32 per cent for the Other backward classes (OBCs), which add up to 50 per cent.

There are demands for revision of the existing quota from various communities led by seers or pontiffs, who have held protests.

The Veerashaiva-Lingayats are demanding OBC status under the central list, whereas the sub-sect of the community Panchamasali Lingayats wants to be put under Category 2A in the state quota.

The other dominant Vokkaliga community has decided to seek enhancement of reservation and wants all Vokkaliga sub-sects to be included under OBC.

On the other hand, the backward Kuruba community is seeking ST tag, the Valmiki community wants ST quota to be hiked from 3 per cent to 7.5 per cent.

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Ramesh Jarkiholi Sleaze CD case: State government orders SIT Probe into alleged Ramesh Jarkiholi Sex Scandal Case:

Karnataka Home minister,Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday announced the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Soumendhu Mukherjee Additional Commissioner of police West to investigate into the case pertaining to the alleged sex tape of former minister Ramesh Jarkiholi.

The state government formed SIT to probe the  alleged scandal involving Ex-Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi,Basavaraj Bommai, Home minister, said.

After attending a meeting chaired by Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and senior police officers,it was decided to set up SIT.

He added that Bengaluru police commissioner Kamal Pant has been asked to appoint Additional Commissioner of Police (West) Soumendu Mukherjee to head the SIT,and to submit the report after the probe to find out people involved and the source of CD and motive behind it.

Earlier Jarkiholi brothers who hired private detectives to probe the People behind the alleged scandal to implicate him.

Mr.Ramesh requested the Home minister stating that through this people behind the scandal have asssasinated his character and also conspired to defame him through political conspiracy  .

Mr.Ramesh while submitting the request  demanded CBI or CID probe.

Meanwhile the cubbon park police continue to track down the woman in the video clips will hand over the details of the probe to the SIT.

BJP MLA,Jarkiholi had stepped down as Karnataka’s water resources minister on March 3 amid allegations of sexual harassment against him. The formation of the SIT comes a day after Jarkiholi claimed that he was aware of the political conspiracy being hatched against him for around four months.

Meanwhile Days after an alleged sex video of former Karnataka minister Ramesh Jarkiholi was beamed across television channels,Bengaluru City Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant issued a directive,citing a Karnataka High Court order on March 6,prohibiting networks from airing content not in adherence to existing rules.

Any channel airing a programme that offends against good taste or decency,among other restrictions,can be charged under the Cable Television Networks Rules,the Bengaluru Police chief said in the order issued to all broadcasters on Tuesday.

The order cited Section 19 of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act,which prohibits all the broadcasts,which are not strictly in conformity in terms of programming code as defined under Cable Television Network Rules.

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Special inquiry wing of CCB on Thursday raided a house in Anepalya and arrested a gang of five persons who were running cricket betting racket.

The accused has been identified as,Mir Ghulam Hyder,Arun Raj,Akbar Ali,Laiq Ali and Roshan.

Senior officer told media persons,Based on a tip off,a team of police led by Ravi Patil,and team raided a house in Anepalya and arrested five persons.

The police have seized Rs.1 lakh and mobile phones from them.

According to the police the prime accused Mir Ghulam Hyder was prime accused in the racket was monitoring the ongoing pakistan premier league cricket matches and receiving bets from punters .

All the five have been booked and a case against the accused is registered in Ashoknagar police station and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated Joint CP Crime,Sandeep Patil,DCP Crime-1, KP Ravikumar,and his team as Ravi Patil and other staff has been appreciated for the commendable job done by them in busting cricket betting racket he added.

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The East Division police of Govindapura police station on Monday raided the office of kannada film producer Shankar Gowda and searched the premises in connection with the international drug racket case which they have busted on February 26.

The raid was conducted based on the information provided by one of the accused arrested earlier in the case.

Senior officer told media persons,As part of the ongoing investigation into drug racket busted recently,by the Banaswadi Sub-Division police of Govindapura police station,ACP,Sakkri,PI,Prakash and team searched the house and office of kannada film producer Shankar Gowda situated in Dollars colony on Monday night.

The search was carried out based on the information provided by one of the accused about Shankar Gowda having links with drug peddlers.

A team of police conducted search and recovered the mobile phone laptop,and other electronic gadgets for further investigation.

The police have also summoned Prakash Gowda to appear before them for questioning.

On February 26,The police had arrested three foreign nationals involved in drug peddling and recovered huge amount of synthetic drugs from them worth Rs 3.5 Crore.

They had revealed the name of Big Boss contestant Mastan Chandra.Recently the police had searched his house and taken him into custody for investigation.

Based on his statement as during investigation the cops grilled the big boss contestant and he spilled the beans that Shankar Gowda used to procure drugs from him based on which we have carried raid said another officer.

This is the second drug case linked to film industry as CCB on last September busted drug racket involving film actors,producers and RTO officer and event organisers he added.

Bengaluru, Mar 8: Karnataka reported 436 new COVID-19 cases and five related fatalities, taking the caseload to 9,55,451 and the toll to 12,367, the Health department said on Monday.

The day also saw 478 patients getting discharged after recovery.

Out of the 436 fresh cases reported on Monday, 287 cases were from Bengaluru Urban alone.

Cumulatively 9,55,451 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state, which includes 12,367 deaths and 9,36,250 discharges, the Health department said in its bulletin.

Out of the 6,815 active cases, 6,699 patients are stable and in isolation at designated hospitals, while 116 are in Intensive Care Units.

Bengaluru Urban accounted for four deaths, while the other fatality was reported from Mysuru

Among districts, Kalaburagi came behind Bengaluru Urban with 22 cases Udupi 18, Dakshina Kannada 14, Tumakuru 12, followed by others.

Bengaluru Urban district topped the list of positive cases with a total of 4,08,312, followed by Mysuru 54,209 and Ballari 39,317.

Among discharges too, Bengaluru Urban was on top with 3,98,808, followed by Mysuru 53,041 and Ballari 38,656.

A total of over 1,93,61,547 samples have been tested so far, out of which 56,445 were tested on Monday alone.