QBengaluru: Midnight Race Kills Teen; IISc Guard Harasses Student

Here are the headlines from the previous day in Bengaluru.

3 Bengaluru Teens Racing in Dads' Cars Crash, Boy Dies

A predawn race involving three teenagers on Hosur Road Elevated Expressway went awry after their vehicles, borrowed from their parents, and a mini-truck were involved in a pile-up killing one of the youngsters near Roopena Agrahara, southeast Bengaluru, on Sunday.

Arfhan Salim, 17, from HSR Layout and a student of a private college, was beheaded as his sedan grazed against a row of barricades placed in the median of the road and his head hit them. His friends – Anirudh K, also from HSR Layout, and Srinvas G, from Devarachikkanhalli, both 16 years old – miraculously survived without injuries.

Source: The Times of India

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Guard Harasses Student on IISc Campus, Sacked

A 22-year-old undergraduate student at the Indian Institute of Science was sexually harassed allegedly by a security guard on the campus in the early hours of Thursday.
The student managed to escape from the clutches of Gautham Raj, who allegedly held her hand and tried to misbehave with her near the library. The institute sacked Raj and ordered a detailed investigation into the incident.

Police have registered a case based on the complaint lodged by the student. "We've arrested Raj, a private security guard deployed on the IISc campus on contract. The accused was brought before the court on Friday, and remanded in judicial custody," an investigating officer said.

Source: The Times of India

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Anti-Hindi Campaign: Activists Seek Constitutional Amendments

Amid growing dissatisfaction over the alleged Hindi imposition by the Centre, language activists on Sunday said they would launch an aggressive campaign to seek a constitutional amendment to ensure equality among Indian languages.

The campaign, to be spearheaded by representatives from non-Hindi speaking states, will focus on urging the Centre to amend the Part XVII of the Constitution so that regional languages are treated on par with Hindi.

Source: The Times of India

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Lingayat Issue Pits Siddaramaiah Against Sonia

The burgeoning Lingayat movement, conceived as a political strategy to counter the BJP’s influence across North Karnataka, is now turning out to be a problem for the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in the state. This is primarily because the ‘movement’ is going against AICC President Sonia Gandhi’s previous efforts in the region.

To make matters worse, water resources minister MB Patil’s recent gaffe (in which the top pontiff of Siddaganga Mutt in Tumakuru clarified that he never said that he favoured a separate religion for Lingayats – contrary to what Patil had claimed) in a poll-bound year has caught the Congress High Command’s attention. Sonia Gandhi has reportedly conveyed her unhappiness to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and party in-charge KC Venugopal over the issue.

Source: Bangalore Mirror

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Six Goa Tourists Feared Washed Away in Karwar

Six picnickers from Goa were feared washed away in the Nagaramadi falls in Chendya village, 8km from Karwar, on Sunday after the water level suddenly rose due to floods caused by the recent spell of rain.

The bodies of Frenzila Pires, 21, and Fiona Pacheco, 29, from Raia, Salcete, were recovered, police said. The search for four others -Marcelina Estibeiro, 38, from Curtorim; Sameer Gavade, 32, from Keri, Ponda; Siddu Chari, 22, from Vasco; and Renuka, 23 -did not yield results till Sunday night.

Uttara Kannada SP Vinayak Patil said the operation will resume on Monday.

Source: The Times of India

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BJP Leader's Son and Friends Held for Attacking Cop, Home Guard

A BJP leader's son and his three friends were arrested on the charge of assaulting a constable and a home guard on duty in the early hours of Sunday in Malleshwaram. The arrested were drunk, the police said.

The prime suspect Karl Marx (21) is the son of Chi Na Ramu, national general secretary of the BJP SC Morcha. Three other suspects are Chetan (20), Keshav (23) and Shreyas (23).

They assaulted Umesh (24), a constable of Malleswhwaram police station and Rudresh (26), a home guard. Umesh is being treated at KC General Hospital, while Rudresh was treated as an outpatient, said the police.

Source: Deccan Herald

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