The Karnataka Cupboard determined to withdraw 60 instances lodged in opposition to varied activists, political staff, and most of the people lodged previously, throughout its assembly held Thursday.
Of the 60, 11 have been associated to the protests held following the arrest of Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D Okay Shivakumar in September 2019 by the Enforcement Directorate.
The instances have been registered at Kanakapura, Sathanur and Kodihalli police stations of Ramanagar (now Bengaluru South) district. The accused within the instances have been booked underneath varied sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Prevention of Harm to Public Property Act.
A Cupboard notice on the problem, accessed by The Indian Categorical, reveals that Congress and JD(S) staff have been concerned within the protests as the 2 events have been allies then. Other than holding demonstrations with out permission, the employees have been accused of violating prohibitory orders and pelting stones at buses run by the Karnataka State Transport Company (KSTC).
These instances have been withdrawn based mostly on petitions submitted by Karnataka Dwelling Minister Dr G Parameshwara, and the chief whip of the federal government within the Legislative Meeting, Ashok Pattan.
Different instances
One other case concerned the supporters of D Okay Suresh, brother of Shivakumar, who have been booked for obstructing authorities officers from discharging their duties throughout an occasion in 2012. Supporters of Suresh have been sad that he was not allowed to supply floral tributes to the statues of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and Kempegowda in January that yr.
The police had booked 5 supporters of Suresh in reference to the case. This was withdrawn based mostly on a petition filed by Shivakumar.
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4 instances withdrawn have been associated to the protests held at Shikaripura within the Shivamogga district in 2023 in opposition to the inner reservation for Scheduled Caste members introduced by the then Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) authorities. The protesters have been accused of pelting stones and assaulting officers as they tried to put siege to the residence of former chief minister B S Yediyurappa within the city.
Instances have been additionally dropped based mostly on the petition of former house minister Araga Jnanendra. Three of those instances have been registered on the Ranebennur Police Station within the Haveri district.
The primary was associated to the violation of presidency order relating to using sound methods through the Ganesh Chaturthi procession. Police personnel who objected to it have been misbehaved with because the procession lasted until 3 am on August 12, 2018.
The second was in opposition to people who had organised a ram struggle within the city, and the third was associated to violations through the Ganesh Chaturthi procession in 2019.
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One other case advisable to be dropped by Jnanendra was filed in 2017 for alleged violations throughout the identical competition. The federal government additionally dropped a fifth case advisable by him in 2023, registered at Kanakapura police station, which concerned a conflict between two teams.
Primarily based on a petition by IT/BT minister Priyank Kharge, a case filed on the Chittapur Police Station within the Kalaburagi district was dropped. The case was associated to a stone pelting incident that occurred in August 2019, when members of a group had objected to police seizing a car carrying cattle. As many as 33 folks have been booked within the case.
Just a few instances registered through the protests in opposition to the discharge of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu and through the Mahadayi protest have been additionally withdrawn by the Cupboard.