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Violence Over Facebook Post: 3 Dead in Bengaluru as Police Open Fire on Violent Protesters, Section 144 Clamped in City

Around 60 police personnel, including as additional commissioner of police, have been injured in the clash which broke out in the evening. Protesters set several cars on fire, demanding immediate action against the nephew of Congress MLA R Akhanda Srinivas, who allegedly posted something derogatory on Facebook.

Updated: August 12, 2020 2:59 PM IST

By India.com News Desk | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh

Violence Over Facebook Post: 3 Dead in Bengaluru as Police Open Fire on Violent Protesters, Section 144 Clamped in City

New Delhi: At least three persons were killed and several others were injured as police opened fire on mobs that attacked KG Halli and DJ Halli police stations on Tuesday night, demanding immediate arrested of the nephew of Congress MLA R Akhanda Srinivas Murthy for an allegedly infuriating Facebook post. On Wednesday morning, police said they have booked 145 people for the rampage. The nephew of the MLA has also been arrested. Section 144 has been imposed in the entire Bengaluru while curfew was declared in the two police station areas which came under attack.

Around 60 police personnel, including as additional commissioner of police, have been injured in the clash which broke out in the evening. Hundreds of people gathered outside Srinivas Murthy’s house in east Bengaluru’s Kaval Byrsandra area and started pelting stones. They set the cars parked there on fire.

Another crowd reportedly gathered outside the KG Halli police station and attacked police personnel.

Reports said that police did not initially want to file an FIR. The MLA’s nephew, meanwhile, claimed that his account was hacked and he had no idea about the ‘derogatory’ post, which now stands deleted.

As things escalated towards the night, several politicians took to social media and appealed for peace.

MLA Murthy, himself, appealed to the community members to not resort to violence.

“I am appealing to my Muslim brethren that we should not resort to violence for the fault committed by some miscreants. There is no need to fight. We all are brothers. We will get the person punished as per law. We will also be with you. I appeal to the Muslim friends to be calm,” he said in a video message.

Senior Karnataka Congress leader Dinesh Gundu Rao also tweeted, “Horrible situation in Pulakeshinagar after the attack on our MLA Akhanda Srinivas’s house and the Kaval Byrsandra Police Station. Whatever the provocation nobody can take law into their own hands and destroy public property. The first priority is to bring things under control.”

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