Puttur: Bundh Total - Garage Torched, Three Vehicles Burnt Down
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Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (SP)
Puttur, Mar 18: As both the Hindu and the Muslim Organizations that are engaged in a blame-game against each other for the clashes that ensued in the town on March 17 have given a call for a bundh on Wednesday March 18, business establishments, shops etc have downed their shutters. As the bundh organizers have exempted the PU examination which is under way, some government buses are plying. A garage was torched in the early morning of Wednesday.
Although the disturbances temporarily ceased after the policemen entered the mosque complex and arrested miscreants who were throwing stones from there, angered activists turned violent at night. A total of seven people have been arrested in connection with the disturbances including three activists of Hindu outfits.
A gang which forcibly entered a shop located in Olattadka near the mosque on Tuesday night vandalized the things and beat up shop owner Abubakker and his brother-in-law Rafique. Both of them have been admitted into a hospital. A crowd intercepted the car of Puttur businessman Sadiq at Shekhamale near here, damaged it and assaulted him. A gang that arrived in a jeep barged into a shop belonging to Ismail in Nidpalli and damaged things. Ismail was not in the shop at the time. A man named Purushottam who was in the shop, was attacked.
A crowd damaged a rickshaw in Renja and assaulted its driver. The house of Ismail in Kaudicchar was damaged in stone pelting. Someone put a parked tempo-rickshaw to neutral gear and pushed it ahead, as a result of which it fell into a pit, with its load of fish scattered all around. Some tyres were also burnt at night at the Puttur bus stand.
In the wee hours on Wednesday, mischief mongers torched Shivashakti Garage belonging to Shivaram Rai located near Kotecha Hall in Padil, in the outskirts of the town. Three vehicles that had been left at the garage were burnt down.
Even though the bundh call applies to the whole taluk, it has been affective only here. Other towns like Uppinangady, Nellyadi, Eshwarmanagala, Kaniyoor etc have had no effect of the bundh call.
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