Language Row: Maha, K’taka Suspension of bus services after attacks

Bus services between Karnataka and Maharashtra have been suspended following attacks on buses and crew.

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“We suspended bus services to Maharashtra since yesterday (Monday). Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) has also ceased to operate buses to Karnataka,” said a senior officer of the North West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation. .

The decision was taken, given the prevalent tension in the Border District of Belagavi, on a sensitive problem, he explained.

Meanwhile, both factions of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike, TA Narayana Gowda and Praveen Shety have staged demonstrations.

Later, Pro-Kannada activists courted the arrest.

Gowda and Shetty met him separately on conductor Mahadevappa Hukkers in the morning and assured him of all possible assistance.

Talking to reporters, Gowda said that KRV will not tolerate mistakes that harm Karnataka and attack Kannadigas because he did not speak Marathi.

He also slammed the politicians in Karnataka because they took the problem easily and did not answer properly.

The Minister of Transport of Karnataka, Ramalinga Reddy, claimed that the situation in Belagavi was normal and that there is nothing to worry about.

He added that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah guided Karnataka’s Chief Secretary, Shalini Rajneesh and DGP Alok Mohan, to talk to their counterparts in Maharashtra and to ensure the safety of buses and crew from both states.

“Our buses do not go to Maharashtra. There are 509 services scheduled every day. From Maharashtra, 130-140 buses come to Karnataka. This affects people between both states,” he told Bengaluru.

In addition to an incident of a Maharashtra bus that was detached in Chitradurga, no other such incidents were held in Karnataka, he said.

“The organizations organized protests, but they did not allow themselves in such acts. However, the protesters in Maharashtra disappointed our buses and stuck the colors of our drivers. Our chief secretary spoke to Maharashtra officials. We brought the whole problem. At the chief minister’s notification, “Reddy said.

Noting that the conductor who was assaulted is likely to be discharged on Wednesday, Reddy said the Pocso case was “false” and a subsequent thinking.

The language row in Belagavi started after a group of people had intercepted a KSRTC bus and assaulted the conductor and driver because they did not talk to a passenger from Marathi.

The passenger, a minor girl, also filed a complaint saying that the conductor had behaved wrong with her.

Meanwhile, the family of the minor girl, on whose complaint, a case under the law of Pocso was registered on Monday against the bus conductor, issued a video statement saying that they decided to withdraw the case and asked people to stop climbing the problem in a language. Dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra.

In a video statement, which is supposed to have been launched by the family, a woman who is believed to be the girl’s mother and remembered the incident, saying that when her son and daughter were traveling from Belagavi to Balekundri after visiting The hospital took place an altercation over a bus ticket, which was falsely designed as a Kannada-Marathi problem.

“The injustice happened to our daughter. Given the situation, we will withdraw the case. We ask people to stop all this. There is no pressure from anyone to withdraw the case. We voluntarily withdraw it.”

The Police Commissioner from Belagavi, Iada Martin Marbaniang, told the PTI that he came across the video statement through the media, in which the girl’s family expressed the desire to withdraw the case, but they have not yet approached the police.

“First of all, the victim’s family will have to officially register their statement at the police station. Certain procedures must be followed to close the case and we will continue according to once their statements,” he said.

Meanwhile, the inspector of the Police Section Marihal was transferred for the “delay” of registering the car conductor about the alleged attack, said a senior police officer.

The problem was climbed when the buses in both states were defamed and the drivers were attacked.

Reacting to the tense situation in Belagavi, the State Minister declared to the press: “We sensitized the police general and the police superintendent in the region. Pro-Kannada organizations have planned to stage a protest today and I have granted the permission to authorize it.

He warned about strict actions against those who disrupt peace.

The minister said that neither Maharashtra government buses come to Karnataka nor Karnataka government buses were going to Maharashtra.

“In the current situation, government buses in both states have been stopped. However, private buses are still working. Once the situation gets better, the services will resume,” he explained.

As for the Pocso case against the conductor, Parameshwara said: “I asked to be checked. I asked for a report for why the case was registered.”

Regarding the transfer of the police station inspector, he said that such actions are routine in the police department.