KARWAR: Police sub-inspector Shivanand, who works in Hubballi, sent his official jeep to Gokarna at the behest of his contractor friend, so that the contractor could get his backhoe loader and some machinery back here. Four people were travelling in the jeep, and the Gokarna police said that none of them were police personnel.
The members of Citizen Committee in Torke village near Gokarna, stopped the vehicle on the suspicion that the people inside the jeep were not policemen. When the passengers in the jeep were questioned, they said that they were not police personnel. A backhoe loader and other machinery belonging to a contractor were stuck in Gokarna since the lockdown, and they were sent to get them back to Hubballi. .
The Uttara Kannada district administration has banned the entry of people into the district, from all neighbouring districts, including Dharwad, where there are many Covid-19 cases. According to the people in the jeep, one of whom is a backhoe loader driver, Shivanand asked them to take the police jeep to Gokarna, which is about 160 km away from Hubballi, to create an impression that police personnel are inside the jeep, so that they can cross the Dharwad-Uttara Kannada border.
Villagers informed the local police about the issue. On investigating the matter, the local police found out that the jeep belonged to the forest protection squad of the police department in Dharwad district.
Gokarna police have registered a case against Gouse Hanagi Abdul Razak and Imtiyaz Khaaja Hussein, who are both residents of Hubballi and Muttappa Dhanapal Patil of Sasalatti village in Bagalkot and Prabhuling Ramesh Neelan of Teradal, under various sections of the IPC.
Locals expressed their anger against the police for not mentioning the name of the sub-inspector who sent these people in a police jeep. They demanded that the name of the sub-inspector and contractor should be included in the FIR, for criminal conspiracy to cheat the government and defy the law, instead of making the backhoe loader driver and workers the scapegoats. Locals alleged that the police are trying to cover up the matter to save the sub-inspector, but police said that more names will be included in the FIR, if their direct involvement is found in the case.
The members of Citizen Committee in Torke village near Gokarna, stopped the vehicle on the suspicion that the people inside the jeep were not policemen. When the passengers in the jeep were questioned, they said that they were not police personnel. A backhoe loader and other machinery belonging to a contractor were stuck in Gokarna since the lockdown, and they were sent to get them back to Hubballi. .
The Uttara Kannada district administration has banned the entry of people into the district, from all neighbouring districts, including Dharwad, where there are many Covid-19 cases. According to the people in the jeep, one of whom is a backhoe loader driver, Shivanand asked them to take the police jeep to Gokarna, which is about 160 km away from Hubballi, to create an impression that police personnel are inside the jeep, so that they can cross the Dharwad-Uttara Kannada border.
Villagers informed the local police about the issue. On investigating the matter, the local police found out that the jeep belonged to the forest protection squad of the police department in Dharwad district.
Gokarna police have registered a case against Gouse Hanagi Abdul Razak and Imtiyaz Khaaja Hussein, who are both residents of Hubballi and Muttappa Dhanapal Patil of Sasalatti village in Bagalkot and Prabhuling Ramesh Neelan of Teradal, under various sections of the IPC.
Locals expressed their anger against the police for not mentioning the name of the sub-inspector who sent these people in a police jeep. They demanded that the name of the sub-inspector and contractor should be included in the FIR, for criminal conspiracy to cheat the government and defy the law, instead of making the backhoe loader driver and workers the scapegoats. Locals alleged that the police are trying to cover up the matter to save the sub-inspector, but police said that more names will be included in the FIR, if their direct involvement is found in the case.
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