Sagar CMC workers protest
The Hindu
Hassan
Employees of Sagar City Municipal Council on Friday staged a protest demanding action against people who allegedly assaulted the Commissioner during a protest on Wednesday. They stopped all services except the drinking water supply in the city as part of the protest.
Congress leaders staged a protest on Wednesday in front of the CMC office alleging that the officials removed the petty shops of poor street vendors without showing them an alternative place to do business. During the protest, Congress leaders and Commissioner H.K. Nagappa had a heated argument on evicting the vendors.
Later, the staff members of the council decided to stage a protest alleging that the Commissioner was assaulted during the protest. They announced that they would stop all the services in the city, except the drinking water supply until action was taken against the accused. The protest continued till the afternoon. They were angry with the police for registering a case against the CMC staff based on the complaint by the shopkeepers
Sagar MLA Hartal Halappa and ASP Rohan Jagadish and other senior officers of the taluk met the protesters and convinced them to end the protest.
“We are judges and therefore, cannot act like Mughals of a bygone era ... the writ courts in the guise of doing justice cannot transcend the barriers of law,” the High Court of Karnataka observed while setting aside an order of a single judge, who in 2016 had extended the lease of a public premises allotted to a physically challenged person to 20 years contrary to 12-year period stipulated in the law.
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday declined to interfere, at present, in the investigation against a Bharatiya Janata Party worker, who is among the accused persons facing charges of circulating obscene clips, related to “morphed” images and videos clips related to Prajwal Revanna, former Hassan MP, in public domain through pen drives and other modes.