Murder of Hindu activist: VHP calls for DK bandh, prohibitory orders in Mangaluru
Deputy Commissioner M.P. Mullai Muhilan has issued orders under Section 163 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Samita imposing orders prohibiting people across the district from moving in groups from 6 a.m. on May 2 and 6 a.m. on May 5.
Mangaluru Police Commissioner Anupam Agrawal has issued the same orders, which will be in force till 6 a.m. on May 6.
Following the bandh call, all city buses, which Mangaloreans rely on commuting, are off the road. There are reports of stoning of two buses near Pumpwell Junction and a bus in Mulky. Most shops and business establishments were closed. Hindu activists were seen forcing shop keepers, who had opened their shops in some areas, to down their shutters. Autorickshaws were also off the road.
Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) R. Hithendra arrived in Mangaluru on Friday morning to review security arrangements. Additional security personnel are deployed across the city.
The 30-year-old Suhas Shetty, a former member of Bajrang Dal Go Raksha Division, was hacked to death by a group of six persons in front of a row of shops in Kinnipadavu, near Bajpe, on Thursday. Shetty was the main accused in the murder of Mohammed Fazil in Surathkal on July 28,2022. Fazil's murder was two days after murder of BJP leader Praveen Nettaru in Sullia.
People came in large numbers and visited the mortuary of the private hospital in Mangaluru where the body of Shetty was kept on Thursday. Mangaluru City MLAs D. Vedavyas Kamath and Y. Bharath Shetty also visited. Mr. Kamath held State Government responsible for Shetty's murder and said Government's decision to withdraw cases against SDPI and PFI activists as a major cause for the murder.
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