BENGALURU: The city police have arrested three persons for allegedly tearing up posters featuring images of freedom fighters put on display to celebrate the 75th Independence Day.
The arrests were made by the Halasuru Gate police station where a case was filed on August 14 under the Prevention of Insult to National Honour Act, 1971, and outraging of religious feelings (under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) over the alleged vandalism of a flex board with an image of Tipu Sultan put up on Nrupatunga Road at Hudson Circle installed as part of the Congress ‘Freedom Walk’ programme on August 15.
The complaint was made by the Rajajinagar Congress party functionary Manjunath, police said. Those arrested include Puneeth Kerehalli, president of an organisation named Rastra Rakshana Pade.
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief D K Shivakumar visited the incident site and said, “Someone is trying to create disturbance in the state. They are not able to digest Congress’ ‘Freedom March'”.
The state Congress had also reacted to the issue of dropping of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s photo from government advertisements. Shivakumar on Sunday demanded an apology from the Karnataka government for ignoring former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in the state government’s advertisement for the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign. He also demanded an apology from the Karnataka CM. (ANI)