Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (MB)
Puttur, Feb 8: Police sources told Daijiworld that they had managed to identify the culprits who were responsible for the unprecedented incidents of unrest and violence that took place near the Shri Mahalingeshwara temple here on its annual festival dayon last Saturday, which led to caning on the crowds and firing in the air by the police.
Video clippings of the incidents have helped the police to pinpoint the miscreants and on the basis of this evidence, about 30 persons have been rounded up. In all about 100 persons are wanted in the case.
Curiously, the incident is attaining a marked political colour. The BJP says Shri Ram Sene, which has been accused of crating the disturbances, is trying to split the Hindu community and the Sangh Parivar strength, with Congress aiding it in the background.
On the other hand, the Shri Ram Sene, which is regarded as a rebel group of the Parivar, says that the BJP, with its clout at the state level being partner of the ruling coalition, is trying to suppress it using the police force.
The Congress leaders also say that while they do not support any violence, the least in the holy precincts of the temple, it is true that the Shri Ram Sene took its birth in protest against the oppressive policies of the BJP leaders, who are now trying to crush the Sene as it is being perceived as a political threat.
However, some Shri Ram Sene workers spoke in private to Daijiworld and they were found to have their own grouse against their leaders. They said the Sene leaders provoked the followers to create trouble and vanished from the scene. They are absconding now and seeking anticipatory bail, leaving the followers to cool their heels in distant Bellary jail. It is a common belief in the district that anyone holed up in Bellary jail never dares to get into any scrap with the law in his lifetime.
A law student, who was involved in the trouble, had sought bail from the court and on the basis the arguments of his lawyers, others arrested also are being given bail.