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.

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa presenting the state budget 2021-22 on Monday, said he has not put the burden of additional taxes on the common people.

“The year 2020-21 due to COVID-19 pandemic has caused untold miseries to the general public. I am not willing to put the burden of additional taxes on the common people,” Yediyurappa said.

Presenting the Budget 2021-22 in the legislative Assembly, he said, the state government levies Karnataka Sales Tax (KST) on petrol and diesel and it is already lesser compared to the other southern states.

“Despite this in the 2021-22 budget, no taxes including Karnataka State Tax on petrol and diesel has been increased and the budget has been formulated in such a way so as not to increase the financial burden on the common man,” he added.

Yediyurappa who also holds the Finance Portfolio presented the state budget, his eighth in the legislative assembly Monday.

The Chief Minister said, the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) has seen a fall due to lockdown for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic during the year 2020-21, and as per the initial estimation based on fixed prices the GSDP has contracted by 2.6 per cent in comparison with that of 2019-20.

He further stated that in spite of COVID and occurrence of floods in North Karnataka during 2020-21, growth of 6.4 per cent is observed in the agriculture sector and said however, the industrial and service sector witnessed a decline.

“During 2020-21 contraction in the industrial sector is 5.1 per cent and in the service sector is 3.1 per cent,” he added.

He refused to accept that the woman shown in the CD was a ‘job seeker’, and sought a thorough investigation into the episode by a professional agency like the CBI. 

BENGALURU: The Jarkiholi brothers and their supporters have been busy doing their own detective work to get to the bottom of CD Gate that shows former water resources minister Ramesh Jarkiholi in a compromising position with a woman.

Arebhavi BJP MLA Balachandra Jarkiholi, who is Ramesh’s brother, on Sunday said, “I have information that around Rs 15 crore was paid to upload the sleazy, doctored videos from foreign destinations, like Russia and Singapore. There is a criminal conspiracy that was hatched against Ramesh.”

He refused to accept that the woman shown in the CD was a ‘job seeker’, and sought a thorough investigation into the episode by a professional agency like the CBI. 

He claimed that Dinesh Kalhalli, the complainant in the case, did not have all the facts and could have been misguided. “There are unseen hands involved in this. There were four men behind this conspiracy,” he said but refused to name them. 

“How do you explain the release of the CD just when the Assembly elections were declared for West Bengal, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam? Is it not evident that it is an attempt to tarnish the family and the party,” he asked. He said that all the videos have been doctored and are fake. “With technology, anything is possible now.

It has to be sent to an accredited laboratory to find out if it is genuine.” Asked if he suspected any individuals in Bengaluru or Belagavi, he said it has to be investigated. He urged Ramesh to come out and speak and to end his isolation. “How can the media portray her as a job-seeker? Kallahalli’s allegation that Ramesh was sexually exploiting the woman on the pretext of offering her a job at the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited is false,” he added.

On his Rs 100 crore defamation suit against the woman, he said he will consult his lawyers.  After the scandal broke out, Jarikiholi tendered his resignation as water resources minister to Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, which was forwarded to Governor Vajubhai Vala, who accepted it immediately. Apprehending a “political conspiracy” being hatched to defame them, six ministers of the Yediyurappa-led cabinet have secured court injunctions restraining the media from airing or publishing any defamatory content against them.

After a year marred by the Covid-19 pandemic, incessant floods and economic slowdown, Yediyurappa has assured that the budget will be growth-oriented with a focus on women empowerment.

BENGALURU: Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa will present the Karnataka Budget 2021-22 at 12 noon on Monday, the eighth in his political career and the third during his present term as CM since July 2019.
After a year marred by the Covid-19 pandemic, incessant floods and economic slowdown, Yediyurappa has assured that the budget will be growth-oriented with a focus on women empowerment.

The CM termed his budget a ‘Vikasa Patra’ (development document), on the eve its presentation. The CM’s official Twitter handle said he will present the budget at 12 noon with the hashtag ‘Karnataka development document’.

The CM will hold a meeting of ministers at 11 am in Vidhana Soudha to seek the cabinet’s approval for the budget document. At 12 noon, he will present the budget in the Legislative Assembly. The Budget 2021-22 is expected to be a tightrope walk for Yediyurappa. Following the presentation, Yediyurappa will hold interactions to explain the outlay and the expected outcomes in detail.

Both Houses of the legislature will discuss the budget during the month-long session before passing it for implementation from April 1. Yediyurappa had presented a surplus budget for the 2020-21 fiscal despite a Rs 11,887-crore reduction in Central funds to the state for the 2019-20 fiscal. 

The budget is expected to focus more on development works and women’s welfare. The State Government had resorted to heavy borrowings and raised loans to augment resources for development works since November, as more funds were used in fighting the Covid war over the last 10 months.

Bengaluru: Kannada film actor Darshan on Friday became the brand ambassador of the Agriculture Department and offered to model for farmers for free.

“From now on, I will work for the Agriculture Department as well. There is a close relation between ordinary people and the farmers. I will also toil for the cause of farmers,” he said at an event organised at the Vidhana Soudha.

Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and Agriculture Minister B C Patil expressed joy over Darshan’s gesture.

“I never expected ‘Challenging Star’ Darshan to volunteer as the brand ambassador. With his huge fan following, the agriculture sector will benefit a lot,” the Chief Minister said.

He said he would watch Darshan’s upcoming movie ‘Roberrt’. The action-thriller has already created a wave among movie buffs even before its release on May 11. The film would be released in Kannada and Telugu simultaneously.

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