HC blasts Karnataka Govt. for giving Liquor licenses at religious places

Poush Krushna Chaturthi, Kaliyug Varsha 5112

Anti-Hindu Karnataka BJP Govt. is already on the spree of demolition of Hindu Temples in Karnataka. Now it is giving liquor licenses at the places of Hindu temples. Recently Govt. also increased ‘puja’ rates in the same Kukke Subramanya temple. O Hindus, it proves that now there is no savior of Hindus and now we all should unite together and work to achieve goal of establishment of ‘Hindu-Nation’ !

Bangalore (Karnataka) : Lambasting the state government for its lackadaisical approach with regard to acquisition of land for industrial projects, the high court on Thursday said it was giving fancy names to its schemes, but was actually doing 420 business.

The court said the government is chanting the mantra of development as gangajal to wash off its shady deals.

"This is nothing but economic colonization,” Justice D V Shylendra Kumar strongly observed during the hearing of the petitions challenging acquisition of lands for the 1,069-acre Aerospace project near BIA.

"From the facts placed before court, the project doesn’t seem to be bonafide. For a requirement of 35-odd acres, why apply for 1,069 acres? One of the parties even says that he will not disclose his identity. These so-called high-level committees are transacting with unknown people even without checking their credentials and giving them vast extent of private lands,” the judge said.

HC questions govt’s liquor policy

The government’s decision to allot bar and restaurant licences near several tourist places across the state came for sharp criticism on Thursday as the high court asked it to either withdraw or be prepared to face the music.

"Under this so-called tourism policy, you have given bar licences in Muddenahalli, the birth place of Sir M Visvesvaraya, and near Kukke Subramanya temple. People go to pray and you want to give liquor licences there? What kind of policy is this? You place all the details,” a division bench headed by Justice N Kumar observed while indicating to the authorities to withdraw the permission.

The bench adjourned hearing of the writ appeal filed by bar and restaurant owners to next week. The owners had challenged the single bench order asking them to close down their businesses.

‘Why orthopaedist in a mental hospital?’

The state government on Thursday submitted before the court that the process of recruitment of doctors in government hospitals will be completed in three months time by amending the Cadre and recruitment rules.

A statement to this effect was made before a division bench hearing the 1996 PIL relating to mental health.

The bench asked the government to file a statement on the distribution of drugs to all the mental health units (clinics) set up in all the 30 districts by ext week.

During the hearing, the bench took a dig at the government for appointing an orthopaedic surgeon as the Director of Karnataka Institute of Mental Health, Dharwad.

"This speaks about the government’s style of functioning. What would an orthopaedic surgeon do in a mental hospital,” the bench asked.

Source: The Times of India