JOIN USHonganur clash: Police arrest dalit man
Police have finally succeeded in apprehending the prime accused in the case of disrespecting Dr B R Ambedkar’s portrait by garlanding it with footwear, triggering a group clash at Honganur, Yalandur taluk in the district, recently.
The arrested has been identified as Kemparaju of the same village. What has come as a shock is that the prime accused is none other than a dalit and also the President of Dr B R Ambedkar Association in the village.
Speaking to Deccan Herald, SP Kuldeep Kumar R Jain said, “The prime accused was at large after the clash. He was produced before a court on Saturday and has been remanded in police custody.” Six people have been arrested so far for defacing Ambedkar’s portrait and eight others on the charge of triggering violence, following the incident.
It may be mentioned that miscreants had garlanded Ambedkar’s portrait with footwears on April 28 in Honganur.
This had triggered tension in the village and more than 20 shops were torched and destroyed.
According to another source, it was a politically motivated incident, as two associations named after Ambedkar exist in the village, backed by two different national political parties.
One of the association had organised Ambedkar’s birth anniversary celebrations on the day of the incident.
DH News Service