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Physician seeks police action against IMA office-bearers
The Hindu
Senior consultant physician Srinivas Kakkilaya has filed a complaint with the Mangaluru South Police accusing office-bearers of Indian Medical Association, Mangaluru, of violating COVID-19 norms durin
Senior consultant physician Srinivas Kakkilaya has filed a complaint with the Mangaluru South Police accusing office-bearers of Indian Medical Association, Mangaluru, of violating COVID-19 norms during the Doctors Day function on IMA premises on July 29. In his complaint on Saturday, Dr. Kakkilaya said that office-bearers on the dais of the function had failed to wear masks. They sat too close and thus did not follow physical distancing. A photograph of the function published in a Kannada daily showed this fact. Accusing IMA Mangaluru president M. Achuta R. Kudva, secretary Animesh Jain, treasurer U. Kumaraswamy and others of wilfully violating COVID-19 norms in a public place, Dr. Kakkilaya asked the police to initiate action under Section 269 of Indian Penal Code and Sections 4, 5 and 9 of the Karnataka Epidemic Diseases Act against all the office-bearers of the association.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
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