Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj S. Bommai added that the state authorities are collecting all information related to the involvement of SDPI and PFI in violence and will present a report before Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa after getting all the evidence.
Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj S. Bommai on Monday (August 17) said that the Karnataka government is contemplating banning the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and Popular Front of India (PFI) for their alleged role in the riots which erupted in Bengaluru on August 11.
Bommai added that the state authorities are collecting all information related to the involvement of SDPI and PFI in violence and will present a report before Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa after getting all the evidence. He noted that after that the Karnataka cabinet will recommend to the Central government that the organisation be banned.
After the violent mob descended upon the streets of Bengaluru, attacking the residence of a Congress MLA, and police stations in KG Halli area, DJ Halli over a derogatory social media post, Bengaluru Police arrested a local SDPI leader Muzammil Pasha in connection with the riots. Three persons were also killed after police opened fire to quell the rampaging mob.
The police have said that the riots are pre-planned and the law enforcement agencies are investigating all angles.
Angry mobs attacked the house of Pulakeshinagar MLA Akhanda Srinivas, and in DJ Halli and KG Halli police station areas of Bengaluru.
Reportedly, the MLA was not at his residence when the mob clashed with the police there.
The protesters claimed that relative of the Congress MLA from Pulakeshinagar allegedly put up an inciting social media post about the Prophet. Reportedly, the aggrieved went to the police station to file an FIR against the said person, but the attitude of the police angered them, and violence ensued thereafter.
The violence is stated to have been incited by SDPI and its local leader has also been arrested for his involvement in the violence. PFI was also accused of funding the Delhi riots and in Bengaluru, violence has been triggered within six months of the riots in the national capital. Notably, over a thousand people gathered outside the police station, shouting religious slogans and vowing to give sacrifice.
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