Former Karnataka High Court judge M F Saldanha has accused CM B S Yeddyurappa and former home minister V S Acharya of being party to attacks on churches in Karnataka in September 2008, in an ‘independent’ report he compiled on the attacks.  read more »

In good faith:Justice R. Sachar interacting with nuns at Adoration Monastery in Mangalore on Sunday.
MANGALORE: “We have lost faith in humanity, we do not know whom to trust, because even after waiting for so long, we have not got justice,” a nun at the Adoration Monastery told the former Judge of the Delhi High Court Rajinder Sachar on Sunday.  read more »

The Somasekhar commission does not tell one who did these terrible things; but it goes out of its way to tell us who did not do these terrible things
Bangalore: The great mystery of who actually were responsible for the vandalising of over 50 places of worship and prayer, overwhelmingly Christian, spread over 10 districts in Karnataka in September 2008 remains unresolvedThe Commission of Inquiry, headed by B.K. Somasekhara, set up on September 19, 2008 investigated 57 incidents of attack, all but one of them on Christian places of worship and prayer. The maximum number of such attacks investigated by the commission took place in Dakshina Kannada (32), followed by Davangere (10), Chikmagalur (4), Udupi (4), Bangalore Rural and Urban (3) and Belgaum, Bellary, Chickballapur and Kolar (one each). Though no was killed, many were injured. Loss to church property, in some cases described by the commission as “colossal”, was extensive.  read more »