Presently Bengaluru and parts of Karnataka were gripped by large scale violence and arson on Monday, one person has died and four were injured in police firing and the mobs have set vehicles on fire and have attacked businesses with Tamil names after the Supreme Court ordered that Cauvery water continue to flow to Tamil Nadu.
Sources have stated that police have opened fire at Rajagopal Nagar in Bengaluru, when a mob tried to torch one of their vehicles and curfew was imposed in seven police station limits of the city and at around noon, soon after the court has declined to accept Karnataka’s appeal to freeze its September 5th order on release of water.
Meanwhile prohibitory orders under Section 144 were imposed in Bengaluru and Mysuru, areas around four reservoirs in the Cauvery basin, and Pandavapura in Mandya district and the violence has prompted many schools to declare a holiday.
It is stated that many vehicles were burnt on arterial roads and nearly 30 buses belonging to KPN travels were gutted in the company’s yard at Nayadanahalli on Mysuru road and the outlets of Adyar Ananda Bhavan were attacked at some locations and the burnt shells of several trucks were found in different areas.
