Bus Services Karnataka-Maharashtra suspended against the border row

The bus services between Karnataka and Maharashtra have been affected due to attacks on bus drivers on both sides, amid the sudden cut border cut in Belagavi in ​​the last two days.

The decades -old dispute reappeared on Friday, when a bus driver and a conductor were beaten because he did not talk to Marahal in Belagavi.

The bus conductor told the police complaint that a girl asked for a ticket in Marathi. When she said she didn’t meet Marathi and asked him to speak in Kannada, she and her masculine friend attacked him.

At Marihal, a group of young people intercepted the bus and beat the conductor.

While the police arrested four people for the attack, the conductor was also reserved for “indecent behavior” with the minor girl for a complaint filed by the girl, the reporters of the Belagavi police commissioner, Yada Martin Marbaniang, told reporters.

In an act of reprisals, the mistakes attacked and blackened a bus driver Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) Bhasekar Jadhav at Guyilal, in Hiriyur Tluk in Chitradurga district on Saturday.

The police arrested a few that would have been involved in the crime. Following the incident, the Minister of Transport Maharashtra, Pratap Sarnaik, ordered the suspension of state transport buses to Karnataka on Saturday. Sarnaik said the bus Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC), which was at Bengaluru in Mumbai, was attacked at Chitradurga around 9.10 pm on Friday by Pro-Kannada activists.

On Sunday, an ultra-luxurious bus, belonging to Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) was disfigured with slogans such as “Jai Maharashtra”, “Marathi” and “Maharashtra Navnorman Sena”, written with black paint.

Ksrtc also minimized bus services to Maharashtra following the incident.

“We have limited the number of buses that go to Maharashtra for now and take all caution measures to normalize the situation,” said a senior PTI officer in North West Karnataka Transport Corporation (NWKRTC).