<p class="title">The BJP on Thursday took out a protest rally in the city accusing the state government of being lenient towards financial fraudsters and selling precious land to JSW Steel at a throwaway price.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Holding placards and waving party flags, hundreds of BJP workers thronged the Maurya Circle and staged a demonstration.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They raised slogans against the state government accusing it of being insensitive to people's problems.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Leading the protest, former deputy chief minister R Ashok referred to the IMA Jewellers' case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The firm's owner Mohammed Mansoor Khan is reportedly absconding following the emergence of an audio clip, purportedly of him, in which he is heard threatening to commit suicide.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"They (fraudsters) decamped with the money of 30,000 Muslims the owner of the firm has escaped," Ashok said, addressing the gathering.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Seven directors of the firm at the centre of an alleged financial fraud that left thousands of investors in the lurch have been apprehended.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The state government has formed an 11-member special investigation team to probe the case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">BJP MLC N Ravi Kumar said "...broad daylight robbery is happening here. Muslim brethren are being exploited right under the nose of the Congress-JDS coalition government by one after another fraudster companies."</p>.<p class="bodytext">The protesters also raised the JSW Steel land sale issue.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They accused the government of being hand in glove with JSW Steel as it allotted the land to the company at a "throwaway price."</p>.<p class="bodytext">While welcoming the government's decision to review the land sale, they said the government should make sure that every inch of the land is recovered.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Caught in a bind over the controversial land deal, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Tuesday said the government's decision on the sale of 3,667 acres to JSW Steel will be reconsidered and placed before the cabinet once again for discussion.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After the protest rally, the BJP leaders and workers proceeded to stage a sit-in at the Vidhana Soudha, the state secretariat complex, when they were arrested.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Later, they were released, police said. </p>
<p class="title">The BJP on Thursday took out a protest rally in the city accusing the state government of being lenient towards financial fraudsters and selling precious land to JSW Steel at a throwaway price.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Holding placards and waving party flags, hundreds of BJP workers thronged the Maurya Circle and staged a demonstration.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They raised slogans against the state government accusing it of being insensitive to people's problems.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Leading the protest, former deputy chief minister R Ashok referred to the IMA Jewellers' case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The firm's owner Mohammed Mansoor Khan is reportedly absconding following the emergence of an audio clip, purportedly of him, in which he is heard threatening to commit suicide.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"They (fraudsters) decamped with the money of 30,000 Muslims the owner of the firm has escaped," Ashok said, addressing the gathering.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Seven directors of the firm at the centre of an alleged financial fraud that left thousands of investors in the lurch have been apprehended.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The state government has formed an 11-member special investigation team to probe the case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">BJP MLC N Ravi Kumar said "...broad daylight robbery is happening here. Muslim brethren are being exploited right under the nose of the Congress-JDS coalition government by one after another fraudster companies."</p>.<p class="bodytext">The protesters also raised the JSW Steel land sale issue.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They accused the government of being hand in glove with JSW Steel as it allotted the land to the company at a "throwaway price."</p>.<p class="bodytext">While welcoming the government's decision to review the land sale, they said the government should make sure that every inch of the land is recovered.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Caught in a bind over the controversial land deal, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Tuesday said the government's decision on the sale of 3,667 acres to JSW Steel will be reconsidered and placed before the cabinet once again for discussion.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After the protest rally, the BJP leaders and workers proceeded to stage a sit-in at the Vidhana Soudha, the state secretariat complex, when they were arrested.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Later, they were released, police said. </p>