9 Feb 2009, 2247 hrs IST, TNN
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MANGALORE:
The second additional chief judicial magistrate court here has remanded five persons accused of assaulting and kidnapping Manjeshwaram MLA C H Kunjambu's daughter Shruthi in police custody till February 10.
While the police sought a two-day custody of the accused - Raju alias Rajesh, Ranjith, Aravind Das, Satish and Prakash - the court granted them one-day custody.
In a related development, P P Hegde, advocate appearing for all the five accused, has taken umbrage to a reported statement by Union minister for women and child development Renuka Chowdhury describing his clients as Talibanis and Mangalore as a Talibanized place. "This is violative of their (my clients) human rights and is a highly defamatory statement," Hegde told reporters after the custodial hearing on Monday.
Terming Chowdhury's statement as highly reprehensible given her stature and position in society, Hegde demanded that the minister should retract her statement and apologize to the citizens of Mangalore in general and clients in particular for her outburst. Hegde said various organizations and individuals, whom he did not wish to name citing client confidentiality, have asked him to file a criminal case against her if she did not do so.
Hegde also added that the parents of all the five accused, especially the main accused Satish, and Aravind have filed separate affidavits before the court that they have no allegiance or affiliation to either the Bajrang Dal or the Sri Rama Sene. "Both Kariappa Shetty, father of Satish, and Narayana Maniyani, father of Aravind, have mentioned in their affidavits that they are members of the CPI," he noted.
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