The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Missing initials cause confusion

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Tuesday, Jun 13, 2006

Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

Missing initials cause confusion

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) members' lack of knowledge on men and matters became apparent at the Council meeting here on Monday.

The non-inclusion of initials of a former judge in a resolution pertaining to the change of name for a road in Vasanthnagar resulted in the corporators shouting down the resolution and also those who moved it.

The subject pertained to the naming of the Palace Loop Lane Road after the judge late S.S. Malimath, father of a former Chief Justice V.S. Malimath. The missing initials led the corporators to believe that the road was indeed being named after Mr. Malimath and not his father.

It became clear that most of the corporators had no knowledge of the late Malimath when one of them claimed that the judge was still alive. "Why have you prefixed `late' to the name. He is still alive," Austin Town corporator M.K. Kuppuraj said. After the area corporator M.K. Gunashekar tried explaining that the name in the resolution was that of the "former Chief Justice of Kerala High Court" S.S. Malimath and not V.S. Malimath, BMP Commissioner K. Jairaj had to intervene and clarify that V.S. Malimath was the former Chief Justice of Kerala High Court and not his father.

"There is some confusion about this. Let us defer the subject and take it up after clarifying the points," he said bringing the issue to an end, albeit temporarily.

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