Karnataka: Government Withdraws Appointment Order Of Nutana Kumari, Slain BJP Worker Praveen Nettaru's Wife

Nutana Kumari, wife of slain BJP leader Pravin Kumar Nettaru, has been removed from her job as the new Congress government in Karnataka has withdrawn the temporary appointment made by the previous BJP government.

The erstwhile BJP government in Karnataka had provided a Group-C job on contractual basis to Praveen Nettaru’s wife Nutana Kumari in the then CM Bommai’s office after her husband was killed in an attack by members of banned Islamist outfit PFI.

She was posted as a senior assistant at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat office.

She reported to duty and expressed before the former Chief Minister about her preference to work in Mangaluru.

After her request, she was given the post of an assistant in the Chief Minister's Relief Fund section of the Deputy Commissioner's office in Mangaluru.

The newly-formed Congress government in Karnataka has reversed the temporary order by withdrawing it.

Sources cited by news agency IANS said that when governments change, temporary staff are generally asked to leave and no special consideration has been made for Nutan Kumari.

After the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha’s district head Praveen Nettaru was killed by Islamists on 26 July 2022, the then-BJP government had promised to provide his family with basic facilities like a house and a job to one of the family members.

The case was handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

According to the NIA chargesheet, Nettaru was killed with sharp weapons, “as part of the PFI's agenda to strike terror among members of one community and create communal hatred and unrest in society with the aim of furthering its goal of establishing Islamic Rule in India by 2047”.