Pushkar V

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[Pushkar V @pushkarv]

Pushed, dragged, manhandled: Bengaluru SIR protest puts police excesses in spotlight

https://t.co/4h6QduG5G9

[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

Karnataka government spent Rs 43.24 lakh a day on advertisements under Congress. They spent nearly Rs 142 crore more on ads in the last three financial years than the BJP did in a comparable period, according to Assembly replies and an RTI application. https://t.co/d5HyDyZtBf

[Pushkar V @pushkarv]

@geetanjalic Looks so cool! 😍

[Rishita @rishitaakhanna]

After this report, Karnataka CEO admitted that duplicate/multiple voter IDs were generated due to “procedural circumstances during data processing”, & multiple Form-6 applications were “processed independently”

But what was the SIR for then?

[Pushkar V @pushkarv]

@wajihulla All the best Waji!

[Pushkar V @pushkarv]

🏅 Olympic gold among medals stolen from hockey legend MM Somaya’s Bengaluru home
@prajwaldza and I report: https://t.co/p8f8XqTTW6

[Prajwal D'Souza @prajwaldza]

More details 👇🏻

https://t.co/WdVR5PlTzz

@pushkarv

[Prajwal D'Souza @prajwaldza]

#BREAKING | #Techie rapes friend’s girlfriend; kidnapped & assaulted by her friends in #Bengaluru.

A #softwareengineer allegedly raped his friend’s 21-year-old girlfriend and was later kidnapped by her friends, who assaulted him and demanded ransom, police said on Thursday.

The arrested are Bursu Mahendra, 23, and his friend Yerryboina Tarun, 23, both software engineers who lived together in a house in the Marathahalli area. Both were natives of Andhra Pradesh.

During the inquiry, the 11 suspects, including the 21-year-old girl, allegedly confessed to the kidnapping and demanding a ransom.

However, what shocked the police was the allegation made by the 21-year-old woman. She told the police that between 1.30 am and 4 am on October 24, Mahendra raped her at the house where he and Tarun lived. She was allegedly confined in a room by Tarun.

She then informed her friends, who allegedly kidnapped Mahendra and Tarun, beat them up and demanded a ransom. Police immediately registered a second case, recorded her statement, questioned Mahendra and Tarun and arrested them. @DeccanHerald

[Abhiram R @abhicantdraw]

If you're from/have a vote in Bengaluru in any district, check out https://t.co/qq0NjVWLky I made it for a super easy look up by your voter-id instead of having to download 40 PDFs after having to know your district and assembly constituency etc.etc . 😊 Will do more soon.

[Pushkar V @pushkarv]

@lightroastguy It's always fun to brew with Origami!

[Rishita @rishitaakhanna]

SIR: Karnataka’s final electoral roll is out. Check your name here: https://t.co/RmFvlKwqHU

More than 99.32 lakh names have been deleted from the State’s electoral rolls

[Rishita @rishitaakhanna]

What is more concerning is that the actual number could be higher than 61,000, as the consolidated records (Form-10) on the @ECISVEEP website have consistently shown less applications than figures cited by the @ceo_karnataka. Between Sept 24 & Oct 22, the CEO’s office reported 1,70,442 Form-7, against 1,56,634 as per the ECI website - a gap of 13,808

@pon_vasanth & I had highlighted this discrepancy in a recent report - https://t.co/IDG7Hsq9Bd

[Rishita @rishitaakhanna]

SIR: Over 61,000 Form-7, one third of the total, were filed in the names of EROs/AEROs in Karnataka, with none citing a reason for seeking deletion

More than 53,000 such forms were filed in just the last week of the window for the disposal of notices, which ended on Oct 22

In at least 26 constituencies, ERO/AEROs filed more Form-7 than voters or third parties

Read: https://t.co/bCa8KyLElo

[Pushkar V @pushkarv]

@lightroastguy Tickets setting at ₹20k??? 👏🏽

[Pushkar V @pushkarv]

@SaveBasavangudi @blrcitytraffic @BlrCityPolice @CPBlr @Jointcptraffic @DCPSouthTrBCP @DCPSEBCP @DCPTrEastBCP @DCPTrWestBCP @DCPCentralBCP @DcpEastBcp URL downloads an apk file. Malware

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

Dear @DelhiPolice. What information do you want from my account?

This, for my tweet on how they took away a journalist’s camera.

[Rishita @rishitaakhanna]

Just the month before SIR started in Karnataka, more than 1.28 lakh Form-7 applications were filed between the announcement of the SIR on May 14 & the freezing of rolls on June 16

Of these, 2,254 were filed “in bulk” by just 112 people, seeking deletions even before SIR began

Read: https://t.co/LGerKHqrvi

[Rishita @rishitaakhanna]

“Our neighbours say we will be sent to Bangladesh because we could not prove ourselves” Bengali workers in Bengaluru borrowed money to travel home for SIR hearings, lost wages & spent thousands, only to remain under adjudication

As the ECI begins its enrolment drive to add deleted voters, they still don’t know whether or when their names will be added back

Read: https://t.co/FjnsU35Ucj

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

I agree that journalists have the right to report, and the public have the right to protest.

The anger is stemming from the fact that several journalists or rather their organisations, do not support the right to protest, and instead have systematically villainised the protestors.

Yes, we can condemn the heckling. We can ask the protesters to stop behaving like this.

At the same time, I hope these reporters (and many of them seniors) are coming back to their Newsrooms and strongly asking why they should bear the brunt for all editorial decisions and why things are not changing

[Anusha Ravi Sood @anusharavi10]

Neither the heckling of journalists by protestors nor detention of journalists by police for doing their job of reporting should be acceptable.

Bullying on one hand & misuse of power on the other.

More newsroom leaders should be showing solidarity with all Journalists, especially those without the safeguards of big brands & conglomerates.

Speak up for all journalists being targeted- by crowd or police.

No reporter deserves to be targeted, heckled, detained for doing their job.

[Chethan Kumar @Chethan_Dash]

Protest fundamental to democracy, says Karnataka Govt.

…Then don’t cage us in Freedom Park, say activists.

Full @TOIBengaluru coverage of yesterday's developments.

#SIR #RightToProtest #Bengaluru #CEC