PRAMESH S JAIN
* Posters at Jain defaced.
* Explosive turn to language war.
* language war turns into violent by miscreants claiming pro-kannada activist.
* Communal pitch to language war.
* Kannada Fringe target Jains.
“Kannada fringe targets Jains “
The Commercial street police of East Division has arrested six miscreants for ransacking and vandalising Hindi posters and banners put at the entrance of the Ganesh Bagh Jain community prayer hall in Bengaluru.
The six accused has been identified as,A1 Ramesh Gowda.T.resident of Hebbal.Anjanappa,resident of Dasarahalli,Harish Kumar B,resident of Maruthinagar,Manjunath.M,
Panic gripped at Ganesh bagh’s jain community centre when a group of alleged pro-kannada activist people created ruckus and ransacked the banners put up at the entrance to welcome dignitaries for chaturmas,a relegious program which will go on for four months.
The incident took place on Friday evening at Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Raod when some alleged pro-kannada activists forcefully ransacked posters written in the Hindi language on the entrance of a Jain prayer hall.
Complainants also alleged that the posters of religious gurus were also damaged.
The Jain community later jointly reported the matter to the police and lodged a formal complaint they said,The gang shouted against the organizers for Hindi banners and demanded that it should be in kannada language.When one of the organizers trying to reason with them.They turned it into voilent and forcibly tored the banners by climbing and also they have torn and stampede the shrine pics and threatened them with sure consequences.
The accused had even recorded the act on mobile phone and uploaded on social media with a warning to follow kannada while in karnaraka.
The incident soon spread among the community who vent their ire and alerted the commercial Street police.
Following the complaint, the DCP visited the incident site and assured action against all the accused. The alleged incident was duly recorded and uploaded on the social media site Facebook.
The video which was uploaded on social media was also provided to the police by the Jain community as evidence of the incident.
All India Jain Minority Federation,State President,Prasanna Sancheti and State Mahila President,Pavan Bafna with other delegation met Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and discussed about the yesterday incident at Ganesh bagh,after collecting the information about the incident Karnataka CM assured to take care of the Jain community and give instructions to DG&IGP Mrs.Neelmani Raju and Commissioner of Police,Bhaskar Rao to take strict action against those miscreants who has ransacked the posters and banners put up at the Ganesh Bagh entrance they said.Later a delegation of Jain community met the commissioner of police and submitted a complaint regarding the incident commissioner assured them of taking it very seriously and we will arrest all the accused and build confidence among the community people to not to be worried and appealed all to not be panic said by Bhaskar Rao to Community people.
Tejasvi Surya BJP MP Bengaluru South told media persons condemning the act which a alleged pro-kannada activist group of people ransacked posters at Ganesh Bagh Jain community prayer hall he told media persons that I I am a pro- kannada activist there are millions of people like us who are genuine lovers of kannada who want to protect our language and the culture those people who indulged in the vandalism today they are the ones who are a few rowdy elements and let us not call them pro-kannada activist and bring defamy or infamy who are genuinely working for the cause of kannada.As lot of Jain Scripts are in Kannada language attacking a Jain Munni attacking a Jain shrine just because there was Hindi banner on one of the shrine is nothing but vandalism and therefore we must condemn it and strict action must be taken against those people who choose to take law in their own hand.Those people who have absolutely no objection to English board have no objection to the Arabic script which is point to this land they have an objection to Devangiri Lippi a Lippi that is routed in Indian language Idemology they were indulged in this kannada of vandalism on a board which has Arabic writing.The point is it is not about Hindi or Arabic it is about how you respond to it breaking law and taking law in their own hands condemenable I am not encouraging anyone to do this I want to expose their double standards they have no objection to Arabic they have objection to Hindi they are not pro-kannada activist they are rowdy elements strict action will be taken against them he added.
A President Of Jain Community told media persons that,On Friday evening some few miscreants they came here and they objected for the name boards being in only one language that is in Hindi.This name board we have put in Hindi just because all the Dashrathis who come here to visit our Guru Ji comes from all over every part of the India.So it is for their information only where as the main board of this Ganesh Bagh is written in all the three languages were we have given first respect to kannada language he added.Our delegates met to the Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and Commissioner of Police and we have brought to their notice too as it is discourage and insult to our saint who has stampede and tored their banners as they would have come and requested to us we would have changed immediately and as it is a temperoary board so it is not compulsory to put also we got to know but if they want us to put we would have given first preference to kannada but ransacking and vandalising the posters which is welcome banner to the dashrathis we have registered a complaint against the miscreants and police have taken it very seriously and filed an FIR against the miscreants and they have arrested six persons who were involved in the vandaliing the posters incident we appreciate the efforts taken by the DCP East said by one of the President of Jain Community.
Senior officer said as soon as the incident reported of ransacking the posters forcibly by vandalising the banner and created ruckus at the Jain community hall as Ganesh Bagh as the group of alleged who alleged to be Pro-Kannada activist has posted a video on Facebook stating that it is a warning alarm to those who are imposing Hindi and are insulting Kannada language the same video was downloaded by the Jain community people and it was passed to all the Jain community papers through various social media platform which was been viral and the Jain community across India were anger on those miscreants who has ransacked the Shrine or Saint photos which was puted on the main entrance of Ganesh Bagh with Shrine pics a group of miscreants forcible ransacked the posters and even insulted the Jain Munni’s photo.As soon as the message was passed to DCP East,Rahul Kumar with other Senior officials with Commercial Street police Station inspector Nagaraj with their staff rushed to the incident spot and took all the stock of the situation and a group of Jain community people gathered at commercial street police Station outside demanding action against the miscreants the Jain community later met the DCP and explained him about the incident happened based on the complaint a case was registered against the miscreants with the video evidence of ransacking the poster and creating ruckus which was gripped in panic after registering the complaint DCP East,Rahul Kumar assured the community people he will take this matter very seriously and the culprits will be punished and we will even open a rowdy sheet against those people who are involved in this vandalism he said after registering the complaint DCP and his team with ACP,Inspector and their crime staff swung into action based on the concrete evidence the team apprehended four person in the late midnight and took them into custody and later in the morning we picked more two persons so totally we have arrested six accused who has taken law in their own hands by ransacking and vandalising the banners and posters of Jain Munni and all the accused has been identified as,Anjanappa,Harish Gowda,Ramesh gowda,Mahesh gowda,chandrashekar and Manjunath and case has been registered against them in commercial street police station in the cr.no.118/19.u/s,153(a) 427,504’506 ipc section which are non-bailable after arresting all the accused the commercial street police inspector and his staff produced all the six accused before the magistrate at his house in Koramangala judicial layout after verifying the information about the incident the Magistrate has remanded all the six accused to 14 days judicial custody and we warn all those miscreants who are taking law into their hand will be delt to severe punishment a strict action will be taken against them who indulge in this type of criminal activities if they have problem with any language imposition they should approach local police and seek their help in getting removed the other language board but taking law into their own hands and disturbing other community and creating panic situation across Bengaluru city means we have zero tolerance for this and we will take stern action against those who are indulging and provocating others to make this issue violent we are monitoring each and everything where as Jain community Shrine has asked their community people to maintain peace and said the cops are investigating the case and we should cooperate with the police appealed by Shrine or Guru Ji of Jain community to its community members through a video and I appreciate the team who has taken the case very seriously and arrested all the accused with in 24 hours he added.
Meanwhile the accused who were arrested by the police started releasing videos blaming Union Home Minister Amit Shah,MPs of Bengaluru as,PC Mohan,DV Sadananda Gowda and Tejasvi Surya they even blamed the Chief minister of Karnataka BS Yediyurappa and by slamming the government one of the accused we are ready to go to jail for 100 days also for the kannada culture and language and they even started releasing videos provoking other Kannadigas and other activists to show their strength in standing for them and many even started uploading threatening videos and warning the Jain community people that you are doing all illegal business and staying in our Bengaluru karnataka and are planning to bandh against us they were like if you have guts then block and show one road then we will show our Kannadigas power to you and a series of videos with open threat videos to Jain community as Marwari people was released by those accused and their followers who has even posted that they will intensify their protest across Karnataka and asked all the other organizations to support them in the protest which will be held tomorrow at 5.30 pm near Townhall against the Karnataka state government for arresting their members a post by alleged pro-kannada activist on social media says.
Sources in the police department said that we have taken all the precautionary measures to prevent any untoward incident and we will take strict action against those who are disturbing the society and community harmony with their provocating statements we will take stringent and severe action those who are indulging in this activities we will not spare any one who takes law in their hand they said
