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IGP Mohammed Wazir Ahmed: A valiant cop, a voice for the oppressed and voiceless

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Mohammed Wazir Ahmed

by Qaisar Mahadi

Mohammed Wazir Ahmed Born on 12th March 1955 at Amruthur Village in Kunigal Taluk of Tumkuru District. He had his early education at Government High school, Amruthur followed by Pre-University education at Government Higher Secondary school, Kunigal. An Alumnus of Bangalore University. He has completed his Master Degree from that university and joined the challenging career of Police force during the year 1980 as probationary Deputy Superintendent of Police.

He held the position of Deputy  Superintendent of Police with distinction and worked in places like Madhugiri, Challakere, Chikkabellapur, Kolar & Hospet. After his promotion to the cadre of Superintendent of Police he was drafted for duties to nab the notorious forest brigand Veerappan and he worked in this Special Task Force from 1982-1992. During his stint in this task force he had encounters with the gang of Veerappan and in the process he had the distinction of nabbing many of Veerappan associates of the forest brigand and seizing fire arms etc. During his stint in the special task force he was responsible for seizing loads of Sandalwood from the gang of Veerappan which is having Cores of rupees. As Superintendent of Police COD he had to deal with the murder of a Press Reporter in Mandya district. As a competent police officer known for impartial investigation he is responsible for arrest of sitting MLA  in the said murder case and he has been charge sheeted along with his associates.

Sri Mohammed Wazir Ahmed was promoted to IPS in the year 1995 and was posted as SP(Lokayukta) and posted to Bangalore & Chittardurga. During his long service of 34 years as police officer. He worked as S.P. Hassan as long as 3 years and had the rare privilege of earning the goodwill of public on the one hand and respect from his senior officers on the other hand.  From the beginning of the service he is in the habit of giving respect and cordial relation with his superior officers of the Department, as well as guiding the sub-ordinate officers.  He also worked as Deputy commissioner of Police(Administration) Bangalore City &  AIGP (Crime), Bangalore.

During the year 2004, he was promoted and posted as Dy.Inspector General of Police, Directorate of Civil Rights Enforcement, Bangalore. Thereafter he was deployed as Director, Personnel and Environment in KSRTC, Bangalore. Additional Inspector General of Police (Crime) Bangalore, DIG (CRE Cell) Bangalore, DIGP (KSRP), DIGP(Fire Force) Bangalore. In the year 2009 he was promoted as IGP & posted as IGP(CRE cell) Bangalore. As IGP Karnataka Human Rights Commission he had the distinction of undertaking innumerable cases of enquiries relating to Human Rights Violations. He was awarded President’s Gold Medal for his meritorious service from His Excellency, Hon’ble President of India. He has served as IGP North-Eastern Range, Kalaburagi  for a period of about 2 ½ Years   and he came down heavily on anti social elements,  particularly the rowdy sheeters in Kalaburagi Range.  Later he was transferred and posted as Inspector General of Police (Training),  Bangalore where in he worked there for a period of 10 months and later he was promoted and posted as Additional Director General of Police (Civil Rights Enforcement ) Bangalore.

Sri Mohammed Wazir Ahmed was a voice for the voiceless, oppressed and harassed people of the society. Any oppressed person can  simply and frankly walk into the chambers of Sri Mohammed Wazir Ahmed regardless of his position of IGP and put forth their grievances for redressal. It should be told to the credit of this great police officer who had ears to listen to the problems of weaker sections and downtrodden of the society. After completion of 35 years of service in the cause humanity he is laying down office on superannuation on 31st March 2015. On this occasion it is our moral responsibility to salute this great police corp.  We are missing his service to the Police Department consequent to his superannuation which is inevitable.

We wish him and his family members a happy  and peaceful life. The almighty God be bless him and his family members a good health and cheerful retire life.

Girl shot dead inside Bengaluru Residential school

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Bengaluru: A Pre university student was shot dead and her frend injured when an attender opened fire at them at the hostel, in kadugodi, today morning . The deceased has been identified as Gouthami, a student of Pragathi College and a native of Tumukuru. The accused Mahesh who was on the run has been arrested, as per the police sources.

The Management of the residential hostel informed the police at around 10.30 AM. According to sources, the parents of Gouthami were informed that their daughter has slipped and fallen and was injured only to find out that she was shot dead, when they rushed to the spot. There were heated arguments between parents and the hostel Managment.

Currently the girl’s friend who was injured in the attack is said to be critical.

Karnataka Home Minister K J George, City Police Chief M N Reddi and other senior officials rushed to the spot.

(Agencies)

Nun rape case: Four suspects detained in Ludhiana

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Nuns demonstrate against gang rape, church attack in Nadia of West Bengal on 15 March 2015 (Photo - IANS)

Nuns demonstrate against gang rape, church attack in Nadia of West Bengal on 15 March 2015 (Photo – IANS)

Chandigarh: Four Bangladeshi nationals were detained in Ludhiana in connection with the gang rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal’s Ranaghat town last month.

DCP Navin Singla told the media here Wednesday that four Bangladeshi nationals were detained from Ludhiana’s Motinagar area.

Punjab Police additional DGP Dinkar Gupta said that the suspects were being questioned.

The suspects were detained following their photographs being made available to police authorities in various states.

The 72-year-old victim, a sister superior in a convent school in Ranaghat town, was gang raped by the accused who had entered the school premises to commit dacoity on March 14.

(IANS)

Sonia Gandhi's skin colour made her President of Congress: Giriraj Singh

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New Delhi: Union Minister Giriraj Singh said  that colour of Sonia Gandhi’s skin made her the Congress President.

On Wednesday, April 1, media reports quoted him as saying, “If Rajiv Gandhi had married a Nigerian and if she wasn’t of white skin, would Congress have accepted her as a leader?” said Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha MP from Bihar’s Nawada constituency.

The comment received a flak from the Congress party which immediately demanded an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat criticised his comments and called it derogatory. “This is racist and I strongly condemn it. How dare he make such racist statements? The entire statement shows the low level of public discourse,” Karat said.

Relief to Manmohan Singh, others in coal scam case

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New Delhi: In a relief to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Supreme Court today stayed the trial court order summoning him as accused in a case pertaining to grant of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 to Aditya Birla group company Hindalco.

The stay, which also applied to Hindalco Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, former Coal Secretary P C Parakh and three others, came after senior counsel Kapil Sibal questioned the legality of the summons to the former Prime Minister citing lack of sanction as required under the CrPC and contended that allocation of a coal block was an administrative act without any criminal intent.

“We issue notice on all six petitions. The trial court order shall remain stayed,” a bench of justices V Gopala Gowda and C Nagappan said after hearing arguments by Sibal, who represented the former Prime Minister, and other lawyers in the case.

82-year-old Singh’s daughters, Upinder Singh and Daman Singh, were present in the court during the proceedings.

The bench also stayed the proceedings before the trial court and issued notice to the Centre on a plea challenging constitutional validity of section 13 (1)(d)(iii) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The other three summoned as accused are Hindalco, Shubhendu Amitabh and D Bhattacharya, its officials. All the six were summoned by Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar to appear before the court on April 8.

“I must confess that I have not been able to find out what is the illegal act done by the petitioner in the case,” Sibal said at the outset of the 35-minute proceedings.

Sibal said it is not an illegal act to allot a mine contending that the administrative acts of the Prime Minister cannot be faulted on the ground that he did not follow the recommendations or procedures adopted by the screening committee.

He also referred to the earlier Supreme Court judgement by which all the coal block allocations were quashed on the ground that screening committee procedures were illegal.

“The trial court, in its order, says that you did not follow the screening committee and this is contrary to law,” Sibal said, adding that the order summoning the PM does not stand the scrutiny of “public reasoning”.

He also said that the trial court order does not deal with the provisions on requirement of prior sanction to prosecute a public servant under the criminal procedure code (CrPC) and the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Referring to the essential ingredients of an offence, Sibal said that “there is no reference of meeting of minds to commit an illegal act by the accused persons”.

During the hearing, the bench asked the counsel for Singh to satisfy it on provisions relating to grant of sanction to prosecute a public servant.

Sibal referred to various Supreme Court judgements and said “even if I am the Coal Minister at the relevant time, I don’t lose the status of the Prime Minister who has got plenary power. Everyday, I take decisions as minister and reject the advice, should I be sent to Tihar Jail?”.

There has to be a meeting of minds to do a criminal act with regard to allocation of Talabira coal mines to a private firm, he said, adding, “Where is the criminal conspiracy? Is it an offence to grant coal mines to a private sector company?”

(PTI)

Karnataka firm on Mekedatu project, says CM Siddaramaiah

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Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday informed the Legislative Assembly that the State Government was committed to implementing the Mekedatu dam project proposed across the Cauvery river in Ramanagaram district.

He would convene an all-party meeting to discus the project and lead a delegation to Delhi to appraise the Centre of the necessity of the project for Karnataka, Mr. Siddaramaiah said during his reply to the debate on the State Budget.

Mr. Siddaramaiah said Rs. 25 crore had been set aside for preparing a detailed project report. The project was conceived to meet the drinking water needs of people residing in the parched districts around Bengaluru. It would act as a balancing reservoir and harness water flowing into the sea.

“There is no politics in Krishna and Cauvery waters. We are building the Mekedatu dam within our state, they (TN) will not have any problem from it, and we know how to face this legally,” the Chief Minister said.

Tamil Nadu observed a bandh on Saturday opposing the plan for the Mekadatu project this side of the border.

The Opposition parties-backed state-wide farmers’ bandh over the Mekedatu dam row, though the state government has distanced itself from it.

The bandh call is to press the Centre to rein in Karnataka from going ahead with its proposed plan build a dam at Mekedatu and to urge it to set up the Cauvery Management Board and Cauvery Water Regulatory Authority.

Affiliated trade unions of eight state-run transport corporations of these parties, traders’ associations, retailers, vegetable traders and sand lorry operators are among those who had expressed support for the shutdown.

(Agencies)

​Kannada mandatory subject in Karnataka

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Bengaluru: Kannada language will be a mandatory subject in classes one to ten in schools affiliated to Karnataka board and a compulsory medium of instruction from classes one to five.

This is envisaged in the Kannada Language Learning Bill, 2015 making Kannada a mandatory subject in classes one to ten and Right To Education Act Amendment Bill which were passed by a voice vote in the state Assembly today.

The second bill amended Section 29 (2) of the Right To Education Act to change the provision “medium of instruction shall, as far as practicable, be in mother’s tongue” to “Kannada or mother tongue will be medium of instruction in primary schools” from classes to one to five.

The amendment would help the government in its arguments before the Supreme Court when the curative petition related to its language policy is taken up.

The Supreme Court had rejected a revision petition filed by the state government seeking review of its ruling which upheld a Karnataka High Court judgement striking down its government order issued in 1994 to impose Kannada or mother tongue as a medium of instruction in primary schools.

(Agencies)

Rajnath backs national ban on cow slaughter

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Indore: The NDA government will try its “level best” to bring in a countrywide ban on slaughter of cows by evolving a consensus, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday.

“Cow slaughter cannot be accepted in this country. We will make all-out efforts to ban it and will also try hard for a consensus,” he told a gathering of spiritual leaders of Shwetambar Jains, a prominent sect of Jainism.

Referring to the cow slaughter ban in the BJP-ruled States of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, the senior BJP leader said nobody should doubt the government’s commitment in this regard.

“The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh enacted a tough law; so has the Maharashtra government. We didn’t waste any time in sending the Bill passed by Maharashtra government to the President for his assent,” he said referring to the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act, which also extends the ban to slaughter of bulls and bullocks.

On the occasion, Acharya Shivmuni wanted the Centre to bring in legislation in the current Budget Session of Parliament for banning slaughter of buffaloes also.

To this, Mr. Singh said the government needed to have an absolute majority in both Houses of Parliament to enforce a complete ban. “You must be reading in the newspapers how the government has to struggle to get various bills passed in Parliament.” The BJP lacks the numbers in the Rajya Sabha.

Mr. Singh recalled that when he was Agriculture Minister in 2003, his Ministry had prepared a Bill for a total ban on slaughter of cows. “But the moment I rose to present it in Parliament, there was an uproar. That is why we couldn’t get the Bill passed,” he said.

‘Gem of Indian culture’

Describing Jainism as the “gem” of Indian culture, he said: “The entire world is affected by the scourge of terrorism, origin of which lies in the mentality of violence. And this mentality can be fought with the teachings of Jainism.”

(PTI)

Karnataka MLAs salary up by Rs 5,000; Siddaramaiah to take home Rs 50,000

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Bengaluru: Karnataka legislators on Monday gave themselves a hefty hike in salaries and allowances with the Chief Minister’s monthly salary set to jump from Rs 30,000 to Rs 50,000.

The salaries of the ministers will go up from Rs 25,000 to Rs 40,000 per month.

The sumptuary allowance has been increased to Rs. three lakh per month for both Chief Ministers and the ministers.

The salary of MLAs will go up from Rs 20,000 to Rs 25,000 per month under the Karnataka Legislature Salaries, Pensions and Allowances (Amendment) Bill.

There is considerable increase in other allowances including conveyence and house rent.

The salaries of the Legislative Council Chairman and the Speaker will be Rs 50,000 per month and sumptuary allowance Rs three lakh each.

The increase in salaries, pension and allowance of the legislators will entail an additional expenditure of Rs 44 crore per annum and the hike in salaries and allowances of ministers will cast an additional burden to the tune of Rs 3.50 crore per year on government exchequer.

The Karnataka Legislature Salaries, Pensions and Allowances (Amendment) Bill, 2015 and Karnataka Ministers Salaries and Allowances (Amendment) Bill, moved by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, were passed in the assembly by voice vote.

(PTI)

SC issues notice to Advani, others in Babri Masjid demolition case

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court today sought responses from senior BJP leader L K Advani and others on a plea against dropping of criminal conspiracy charge against them in the Babri mosque demolition case.

A bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu issued notices to the BJP leader and the CBI on a separate plea filed by Haji Mahboob Ahmad, one of the petitioners in the Babri mosque case.

Ahmad, in his plea, has alleged that CBI may dilute its stand in the wake of the change in the government at the Centre.

Earlier, the CBI had moved the apex court against Allahabad High Court’s verdict on dropping conspiracy charge against Advani and 19 others in Babri mosque demolition case.

During the brief hearing, CBI today sought time for filing a fresh affidavit on delay in filing the appeal and on the merits of the case.

The court allowed the plea of the probe agency and granted four weeks time to file the response.

The apex court had earlier pulled up CBI for the delay in filing an appeal against the Allahabad High Court verdict.

CBI has challenged in the Supreme Court the May 21, 2010 order of the high court, which had upheld a special court’s decision to drop the charge against the leaders.

In its verdict, the high court had upheld the special CBI court order dropping conspiracy charge against Advani, Kalyan Singh, Uma Bharti, Vinay Katiyar and Murli Manohar Joshi.

The others against whom the charge was dropped included Satish Pradhan, C R Bansal, Ashok Singhal, Giriraj Kishore, Sadhvi Ritambhara, V H Dalmia, Mahant Avaidhynath, R V Vedanti, Param Hans Ram

Chandra Das, Jagdish Muni Maharaj, B L Sharma, Nritya Gopal Das, Dharam Das, Satish Nagar and Moreshwar Save.

Bal Thackeray’s name was removed from the list of accused persons after his death.

While upholding the special court’s order, the high court had allowed CBI to proceed with other charges against Advani and others in a Rae Bareily court, under whose jurisdiction the case falls.

The May 2010 order of the high court had said there was no merit in CBI’s revision petition against the May 4, 2001 order of the special court which had directed dropping of criminal conspiracy charge against them.

There are two sets of cases — one against Advani and others who were on the dais at Ram Katha Kunj in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992 when the Babri mosque was demolished, while the other case was against lakhs of unknown ‘karsevaks’ who were in and around the disputed structure.

CBI had charge sheeted Advani and 20 others under sections 153A (promoting enmity between classes), 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and 505 (false statements, rumours etc. circulated with the intent to cause mutiny or disturb public peace) of the IPC.

It had subsequently invoked charges under section 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC which was quashed by the special court whose decision was upheld by the high court.

While upholding the special court’s order, the high court had said CBI at no point of time, either during the trial at Rae Bareily or in its revision petition, ever stated that there was offence of criminal conspiracy against the leaders.

(PTI)

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