Will file curative petition before Supreme Court seeking re investigation of Mangalore air crash: 812 Foundation

Mangalore, Feb 2: 812 Foundation that has taken up various issues of aviation safety in India post crash of IX812 flight here in May 2010 is contemplating to file a curative petition before the Supreme Court against disposal of a writ petition filed by it. The Foundation had filed the writ petition before the Supreme Court on issues of aviation safety in the country and to seek the reinvestigation in to the Mangalore air crash that claimed 158 lives.

The president of the foundation Yeshwanth Shenoy stated that "The SC while disposing the writ petition converted it in to a representation to ministry of civil aviation and dismissed the review petition against this disposal filed on grounds of violation of principles of natural justice."" 812 Foundation needs a certificate from a senior advocate to file the curative petition; it is in talks with few senior advocates to take forward this process.

Addressing media on various issues pertaining to aviation sector in the country here on Saturday and launching its website www.812foundation.org, Yeshwanth said this latest legal move is to seek justice for victims of IX812. The SC in a case in 2002 held that in order to prevent abuse of its process and to cure gross miscarriage of justice, it may reconsider its judgements in exercise of its inherent powers in a curative petition.

Regretting the fact that although he had filed claim for Rs 5 crore for each of the victim, the Foundation at present is representing only one victim's family and others have not come forward. The case of Abdul Salam, a victim, whose family that Foundation is representing is limited only to interpretation of Montreal Convention as adopted by Carriage of Air Act, 1972, he said, adding it is imperative that others too must join this quest.

Referring to Airport Authority of India's own hazard identification, Yeshwanth said the non-frangible object at the end of the runway 24 was illegal. The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report circumvented this illegality by reducing the runway end safety area (RESA) from the mandatory 180mx90m to 175mx90m in its report. The non-frangible object was within the RESA and this was not mentioned in the COI report, Yeshwanth contended.

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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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