Homestay attack: All accused get bail except three

July 26, 2013

Mangalore, Jul 26: The Second Additional District and Sessions Court has granted bail to 17 persons charged for their alleged involvement in the attack on young men and women at a home stay on July 28, 2012.With this, all the accused, except three, are out on bail, and the trial is yet to begin.

Those released are Sharat Padavinangady, Chetan Padil, Sunil Paringipete, Harish Maroli, Kiran Matti, Suresh Padil, Mithun Padil, Sampath, Deepak, Puneet Padil, Dinesh Padil, Ganesh Padil, Kombu Rajesh, Dixit, Sunil Thokkotu, Santosh Shaktinagar, and Harish Parangipete.

The Kankanady police had chargesheeted 44 persons in the incident including two TV journalists Naveen Soorinje and Sharan.

The sessions court granted bail to the accused on a Rs. 50,000 bond and a surety. A total of 44 were indicted.

All the accused have been directed to attend the hearings regularly and cooperate in smooth conduct of the trial.

These accused were among the 44 persons against whom Mangalore Rural police had filed chargesheets in connection with the attack. As many as 37 persons, including two journalists Naveen Soorinje and Sharan, were arrested. Recently the State government decided to take back charges filed against Mr. Soorinje.

In two days, it will be exactly one year since a group of rightwing activists barged into a home stay in Padil and attacked the young partying crowd.

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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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