Dharmasthala to get police station

The Home Department cleared the notification for setting up a station, to be called Belthangady Rural Police Station.

June 08, 2015 12:00 am | Updated May 23, 2016 06:39 pm IST - MANGALURU:

The Police Department will set up a police station at Dharmasthala shortly, according to Sharanappa S.D., Superintendent of Police, Dakshina Kannada. In an informal chat with presspersons here on Sunday, he said that the Home Department has cleared the notification under the Criminal Procedure Code for setting up the station which would be called Belthangady Rural Police Station.

The department had identified about 30 cents of government land near the entrance to the temple town, between Snanaghatta and the entrance arch, to construct the building.

As acquiring the land from the Revenue Department and constructing the building would take some time, it has been thought of opening the station in a rented building for the time being.

He said that as per the notification nine villages under the jurisdiction of Belthangady police station and another nine from the limits of Uppinangady police stations have been selected to bring them under the proposed station at Dharmasthala.

Mr. Sharanappa said that a proposal to upgrade the police outpost at Bellare, Sullia taluk as a station has been sent to the government.

According to the proposal, some villages from Puttur rural, Kadaba and Sullia police stations would be carved out to bring them under Bellare police station as per the norms laid down by the National Police Commission, he said. Mr. Sharanappa said that the government had dropped a proposal to upgrade a police outpost at Nelyadi on the Mangaluru-Bengaluru national highway to a police station. The proposal was first sent to this effect in 2005 and in 2013 a revised proposal was sent. The government rejected it last year stating that there was no need.

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