Home Minster G. Parameshwara to hold peace committee meeting in Mangaluru on Wednesday

Home Minster G. Parameshwara to hold peace committee meeting in Mangaluru on Wednesday

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, July 8, 2025: With Dakshina Kannada district witnessing three communal murders between April and May this year, Home Minister G. Parameshwara will chair a peace committee meeting in Mangaluru on Wednesday to thrash out ways to bring harmony in society.

The meeting to be held at the Netravathi Auditorium on the zilla panchayat premises from 12 p.m. would be attended by Assembly Speaker U.T. Khader, district in-charge Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao, elected representatives from the district, leaders of political parties, representatives of different organisations, educational institutions, religious leaders and others, said an official release.

The meeting was earlier scheduled for June 13, a day after the Ahmedabad air crash, amid a host of other programmes. However, the meeting was cancelled, and the Home Minister restricted his itinerary to launching the Special Action Force for Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, and Shivamogga districts to combat communalism, as well as inaugurating residential quarters for police personnel.

A rag-picker from Wayanad in Kerala, Ashraf, was beaten to death by a group of people on April 27 near Kudupu within the City Police Commissionerate limits. The incident occurred when the victim reportedly made some statements that angered the players at a local cricket event. Police have arrested a majority of the accused in this case.

On May 1, the double murder accused and Hindutva activist Suhas Shetty was hacked to death by a group of persons at Bajpe within the Commissionerate limits. While the police nabbed a majority of the accused, the Union Home Ministry handed over the probe to the National Investigating Agency on June 7, stating that the case related to the targeted killing of an individual in public view to create terror in the minds of people by members of an alleged unlawful association.

On May 27, Abdul Rahiman from Kolthamajalu in Bantwal taluk was hacked to death by a group of persons in Ira Kodi village when he, along with Kalander Shafi, was unloading sand from his pick-up vehicle. Rahiman was the secretary of the local Masjid committee. Bantwal Rural Police, under the Dakshina Kannada district police, have arrested the accused in the case, and the investigation is in progress.