Engineering graduate electrocuted to death; locals protest against Mescom, assault official

July 10, 2013

Bantwal, Jul 10: A youth died of electrocution at Farangipete in Bantwal, early on Wednesday morning after coming in contact with a high-tension wire lying on the ground.

The raged local residents say that the death could have been averted if the Mescom officials had been considerate enough to pay heed to their complaint with regard to a hanging wire that had been posing threat since several days.

The deceased is Milan Shetty alias Manoj (22), son of Pudu Gram Panchayat member Vasanthi. Milan had venture out to take the cattle for grazing when the incident occurred.

Milan, an engineering graduate was awaiting job after having attended an interview for a reputed company in Bangalore. Milan's father Ramesh Shetty works in Mumbai.

Ire against Mescom

Death of Milan has put Mescom in trouble as people are expressing their anger against the passiveness of the Company. The local residents had time and again complained about the precariously hanging wire. The Mescom paid no attention to the complaints and the same wire claimed a young man's life on Wednesday.

It is said that the incident occurred at about 6.15 am and when the Mescom officials visited the spot it was about 8 am. Raged villagers assaulted the JE of Mescom. Police had to intervene to control the situation. Hanging electric lines have been a problem in this area and couple of months ago a cattle was electrocuted.

Case has been registered at Bantwal rural police station.

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BJP fields Kishore Kumar Puttur from DK-Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency

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October 1,2024

The BJP has selected Kishore Kumar Puttur as its candidate for the bypoll to Karnataka Legislative Council from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency. The by-election will be held on October 21.

Kishore Kumar is presently serving as the General Secretary of Dakshina Kannada BJP unit. He had served as vice president of State BJP Yuva Morcha from 2014 to 2016.

The by-election will be held to the seat vacated by Kota Srinivas Poojary of the BJP who has been elected as the Lok Sabha member from Udupi-Chikmagaluru Lok Sabha constituency. The vacancy was created on June 15, 2024 following Poojary’s resignation to the Council. His term in the council was till January, 2028.

In the last Council election held for the dual member constituency in December 2021, Poojary had secured 3,672 votes while the Congress candidate Manjunath Bhandary had secured 2079 votes. Poojary and Bhandary had secured required votes from the first preferential votes and had won the election.

There were several aspirants for the BJP ticket including former MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK BJP president Satish Kumpala, Mangaluru divisional in-charge Uday Kumar Shetty, former minister Pramod Madhwaraj and former Udupi district BJP president Kuilady Suresh Nayak.

The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the election. KPCC working president Manjunath Bhandary in a recent press meet in Mangaluru had said that an opportunity will be given to congress leaders from Udupi district to contest by-election.

The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency has 6037 voters including 3551 from Dakshina Kannada comprising eight MLAs, one MP. The last date for filing nomination is October 3 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination is October 7. The counting will be held on October 24.

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