Suspected Bajrang Dal activists barge into house, assault family members

January 14, 2014

Bantwal, Jan 14: According to a complaint registered in Bantwal Rural police station on Monday, suspected members of a saffron group barged into the house of a pick-up truck driver, allegedly assaulted his family members and threatened them.

When Damodar, a resident of Kenjilapadavu in Ira village, was washing his pick-up truck on Sunday evening, six suspected Bajrang Dal members arrived at his house on motorcycles and threatened his family members.

In his complaint, Damodar alleged that the accused Ranjan Sapalya (40), Ashok Belchada (35), Dinesh Belchada (30) and three others barged into his house and demanded to know if he had been stealthily supplying cattle to Muslims at night.

Not only did the gang members threaten him, they also attempted to assault his wife Usha and son Sharan Kumar along with threatening them.

One of the gang members threatened Damodar over the phone on Monday, not to inform the police about the previous incident or they would finish him within the next three days. The accused also threatened him by stating that he had police connections in Pandeshwar and Bantwal stations, Damodar has stated in the complaint.

Police are investigating the case.

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Brahmin Savarkar was non-veg eater; wasn't against cow slaughter: Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao

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Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao reminded that V D Savarkar was not against cow slaughter as he himself was non-veg eater, PTI reported on Thursday.

"As a Brahmin he was eating meat, and he was openly propagating eating meat," said the minister at an event in Bengaluru.

Reacting to Gundu Rao's claim, BJP MP Anurag Thakur called Congress a "factory of lies" as he warned that India won't tolerate any disrespect towards Savarkar.

"By disrespecting Veer Savarkar they have shown that they don't respect freedom fighters. During the Congress government, Sardar Bhagat Singh was termed a separatist in textbooks...By making those who want to break the nation join the congress party, Rahul Gandhi is taking forward the ideology of 'tukde tukde' and he is a 'modern Jinnah' who speaks ill of the country abroad...," he said.

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The complainant, who is the director of an NGO, claimed he watched a press conference addressed by Gandhi in Hingoli and also a speech made by the Congress leader in November 2022.

He alleged that Gandhi, on the two occasions, by his words and visual representations knowingly harmed the reputation of Veer Savarkar and also tried to defame the latter's image in the society.

According to the complainant, Gandhi said "Savarkar is BJP and RSS jin" which was defamatory in nature.

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