Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Mar 9: State home minister, Araga Jnanendra, has assured to take steps to see that the Ullal rural police station is set up near Kuthar in the interests of the general public.

He was responding to the proposal made by Congress MLA U T Khader, during the question hour. He said that as per the National Police Commission, for a new police station to be established, it should have jurisdiction over 150 square kilometres area. Moreover, annually a minimum of 300 complaints should be registered there. He pointed out that only 243 cases registered in a year in Ullal station is the maximum there so far. He therefore expressed difficulties to sanction additional police station there.

Intervening in the matter, U T Khader pointed out that Ullal has sea, religious centres, university and other institutions of higher education. He said that this is the border of the state too and requested to sanction police station by making use of special powers. He said that when Dr V S Acharya was the home minister in the then BJP government, in spite of objections from officials, he had sanctioned police commissionerate in Mangaluru which the people of the region gratefully recollect even now.

Home minister Araga Jnanendra promised to put in honest effort towards this end.