4 people, together with a minor, have been arrested for assaulting a Karnataka State Highway Transport Company (KSRTC) bus conductor in Belagavi for not talking Marathi. All of the 4 had been remanded to judicial custody on Friday night time.
The Marihal police introduced the accused earlier than a choose at his residence on Friday night time. The choose ordered 14-day judicial custody for 3 of them, whereas the minor was despatched to a remand dwelling.
The altercation passed off on Friday afternoon at Chikka Balekundri village in Belagavi taluk. Conductor Mahadev Hukkeri was allegedly crushed by a gaggle of about eight people. The incident started when a boy and a lady from the village, who had been returning dwelling from faculty, obtained into an argument with Hukkeri. The conductor had requested them to speak in Kannada, as he didn’t perceive Marathi. When the boy refused, the argument escalated.
In response to Hukkeri, the boy known as a gaggle of people that gathered on the village bus stand and allegedly assaulted the conductor. Hukkeri sustained accidents and is at present present process remedy at a hospital in Belagavi.
Talking to the media, the conductor stated, ” …A girl and a person had been sitting within the bus, majority of the passengers within the bus had been girls, I used to be distributing tickets, in Karnataka, bus experience is free for ladies…the girl sitting with the person requested for 2 free tickets, I gave her one and requested, for whom would you like the second ticket, she pointed in direction of the person. However, I instructed them that in Karnataka, bus experience isn’t free for males. Then they instructed me to talk in Marathi however I don’t know Marathi and requested them to talk to me in Kannada…6-7 individuals within the bus attacked me. As soon as the bus was stopped, there have been round 50 individuals there and so they additionally beat me up…”
In a separate improvement, the woman who was touring with the boy later filed a criticism towards the conductor, alleging an tried rape. Belagavi Police Commissioner Ada Martin confirmed the criticism, stating, “Primarily based on the woman’s assertion, we now have registered a POCSO case towards the conductor.”
The assault on the conductor has sparked protests from a number of Kannada organizations, which demanded the rapid arrest of the accused. Demonstrators held protests in Belagavi on Friday and marched to Balekundri village on Saturday.
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Condemning the incident, members of the Karnataka Nava Nirman Sene blackened the face of a Maharashtra bus conductor and vandalized the windshield of his bus in Chitradurga on Saturday.
Raju Nashipudi, Karnataka Rakshana Vedike District President, Belagavi, stated, ” The incident that passed off in Belagavi, conductor was doing his obligation. Then, a feminine pupil compelled him to talk in Marathi and when the conductor stated he didn’t know Marathi, the boys who had been with the woman, attacked him. As an alternative of giving justice to the conductor, who was attacked, a case has been registered towards him below the POCSO act…we’ll protest outdoors the Police station the place the case has been registered…”
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