From Our Special Correspondent

Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, Apr 17: In the backdrop of communal clashes in Hubballi, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has warned anti-social elements that the government will take stringent action and cautioned them against fomenting communal trouble.

“No one should dare to take law into their hands. The State Government would not tolerate that. The law would take its course," Bommai said while speaking to media persons before participating in the BJP State Executive meeting at Hosapete in Vijayapura district on Sunday, April 17.

Responding to questions from the media on the Hubballi incidents, he said: “The police are already taking action. Police will not hesitate to take stringent action against those who take law into their hands."

“We will act against those who instigated it too. Let us not give political colours to it. We should look at it as a law and order issue. Then only such incidents will stop," Bommai said.

"In Hubballi on Saturday, some elements took law into their hands. Though the police had arrested the person who had posted a WhatsApp message, some people assembled in front of a police station and incited trouble. Some policemen too were injured in the incident. Later, stone pelting too has happened in some parts of old Hubballi which is an unpardonable crime," Bommai said.

The stone pelting incidents and the damage to public property besides attacks on the police station, injuring several policemen is highly condemnable, he said.