Sex mafia functioning in Mangalore: HJV leader

July 29, 2012

Mangalore, July 29: Mangalore is being increasingly targeted by sex mafia but the district administration and police have turned a blind eye to it, said Jagadish Karanth, State Convenor, Hindu Jagarana Vedike.

Addressing media persons at a press meet in Mangalore, Mr. Karanth defended the 'protest' carried out by some of the members belonging to his organization at a homestay in Padil where young boys and girls were manhandled.

“True, our members were there but they went there to protest. They could not tolerate the injustice and exploitation of women that is being done by certain vested interests. There is a huge sex mafia behind this. Sex tourism has made its way into Mangalore. These people have money and want place and opportunities to enjoy which they are trying to find in Mangalore. But the district administration and police have turned a blind eye to these developments”, he said.

Stating that the district administration has a responsibility towards the society, Mr. Karanth said that all illegal spas, pubs, homestays and resorts should be closed down. CCTV cameras should be installed in homestays and all people who come to use it must be made to submit documents, identity proofs along with photographs, to make sure that no prostitution and criminal activities take place in homestays.

Mr. Karanth also said that if the girls had really just been part of a birthday party and were assaulted for no reason, they should have come forward and lodged complaints against the assaulters.

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all the directions issued previously by any government office or authority to change the mutation records has been withdrawn, the letter said.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