Youth dies after businessman father sets him on fire over financial dispute in Bengaluru

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April 7, 2022

Bengaluru, Apr 7: A 25-year-old man - who was set ablaze by his 51-year-old father over a financial row on April 1 - succumbed to his injuries on Thursday morning. The incident took place in Valmiki Nagar of Chamarajpet in West Bengaluru around 2.30 pm.

The father-son duo was identified as Surendra Kumar, alias Babu, and Arpith, respectively.

Babu, a businessman, and Arpith had a disagreement in a godown, following which Arpith walked out. However, Babu is alleged to have followed him, poured thinner on him and set him ablaze with a match strick.

Even as Arpith started shouting that he had been set afire by his father and locals rushed to douse him, he was admitted to Victoria Hospital with 60 per cent burn injuries.

According to a preliminary investigation, Babu was in the construction and fabrication business, and Arpith used to assist his father. Over the past few months, the father and son had disputes over some finances, as Arpith had allegedly not given a proper account of funds.

Hence, Babu poured thinner on Arpith in the godown and set fire when Arpith walked out of the building.

According to a complaint filed by Ambarish, a lorry driver, a neighbour of Babu, he witnessed Babu setting Arpith afire on April 1, when he was chatting with his friend in front of Babu's building. Ambarish told police that he filed the complaint after learning about Arpith's death.

Based on Ambarish's complaint, Chamarajpet police arrested Babu and are questioning him.

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Waqf land: Karnataka govt warns action against officials issuing eviction notice to farmers

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November 10,2024

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has warned that disciplinary action will be taken against those officials who change the land mutation records and serve eviction notices to farmers under the Waqf Act.

In a letter, the Revenue Department Principal Secretary Rajender Kumar Kataria reminded all regional commissioners and deputy commissioners in the districts that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah recently had a meeting following complaints about certain land properties being made in favour of the Karnataka Board of Waqfs.

In the meeting it was decided that all the directions issued previously by any government office or authority to change the mutation records has been withdrawn, the letter said.

It added that all the notices served in the past have also been withdrawn and no action should be taken against the farmers who are cultivating on the said land.

On the directions of the chief minister, the previous letters and the latest reminders served on November 7 to the farmers and land owners have been withdraw, the letter said.

"The officials who served reminder-2 despite the chief minister's direction will face appropriate disciplinary action," Kataria said in his letter.

He said he has been instructed to strictly implement the chief minister's direction.

The fresh direction was issued in poll-bound Karnataka, where bypolls to three crucial assembly segments are due on November 13.

Some farmers in Honwad village in Vijayapura in north Karnataka had alleged last month that they were served eviction notices as the Waqf Board claimed rights over it.

Subsequently, complaints started in pouring in from some other parts of the state.

BJP leader Tejasvi Surya on October 25 alleged that Karnataka Waqf Minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan directed the deputy commissioners and revenue officials to register lands in favour of the Waqf Board within 15 days, which resulted in confusion.

On Surya's request, the Chairman of the Joint Committee of Parliament on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, Jagdambika Pal visited Karnataka on November 7 and met farmers in Hubballi, Vijayapura and Belagavi districts who had alleged that their lands were marked as Waqf properties.

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