JOIN US23 arrested for taking 'wrong route'
Former MLA M K Somashekar, Kannada Sahitya Parishat, District Unit President Maddikere Gopal, Kannada activist Thayur Vittalamurthy, Mysore Kannada Vedike President S Balakrishna, Karnataka State Backward Classes Awareness Forum President K S Shivaramu, Mysore District Youth Congress (Rural) unit President Dr B J Vijaykumar, Umadevi,
B S Geetha Ganesh were prominent among those arrested by Devaraja Police.
According to the police, they ignored the warning and tried to restrain the authorities, taking out a rally from K R Circle to the office of Police Commissioner, forcing the cops to arrest.
Charges
They have been charged under various sections of IPC- 353 (for preventing cops from delivering the duty) 143 and 147 (rioting), 188 (defying the prohibitory orders) and R/W 149 (intentionally breaking the law).
They were later produced before the Court of Fifth Additional Civil Judge (Junior Division) and JMFC Mysore. The Judge M S Harini remanded them to one day judicial custody.
Order
The office of Police Commissioner had fixed a new protest route from Gandhi Square to DC’s office effected from March 1, to avoid the traffic congestion at K R Cirlce, that had of late become a hub of protest.
However, several organisations including of those arrested, had opposed the order tooth and nail terming it ‘unilateral’.