Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (RJP)

Bengaluru, Apr 30: A youth man was arrested on Saturday April 30 after he set afire 10 bikes parked inside the compound of a cinema theatre in Hosakote near here protesting against removal of a Kannada film to make way for the screening of ‘Baahubali-2’.

Santhosh (20) from Hosakote is the person arrested.

Santosh, believed to be mentally unsound, reached Alankar Theatre around 12.30 pm, with a container of two litres of petrol. He went to the parking lot and got into an argument with the security guard over the removal of the Kannada film, ‘Raaga’.

Santosh then shouted at the guard for removing the Kannada film to accommodate a Telugu film. He called it an injustice and vowed to teach a lesson. Then he poured petrol onto the bikes parked there and set them ablaze.

The security guard raised an alarm and called for a police posted near the theatre. The policeman and the guard caught Santhosh and snatched the petrol container from him. Seats of the bikes were gutted by then.

Santosh was arrested and produced before a magistrate who remanded him to judicial custody.

Santhosh, a PUC dropout, works for a medical store while his mother works for a multinational restaurant chain. He has a younger brother employed at a photocopy store.