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Brinda Karat seeks arrest of police official

BANGALORE: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat on Monday demanded that Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Sateesh Kumar be immediately arrested and prosecuted.

“He (the police officer) deserves to be in jail,” the CPI (M) leader remarked soon after seeing a short film which was made from the clippings of TV news channels showing the police caning Christians at some of the churches in Mangalore.

She demanded that FIRs be filed against all the policemen for the lathi-charge.

Ms. Karat called upon the CPI (M) members to defend the minorities in distress and to raise their voice against anti-secular and anti-constitutional moves.

Referring to Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa’s statement at Gandhi Bhavan on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanthi celebrations that “terrorism and conversions are detrimental to the country’s development,” she remarked that it spoke of a sectarian mindset if somebody equated terrorism with conversion.

Expressing fear that communal harmony in the State was likely to be disturbed in the wake of the Sangh Parivar lining up various activities ahead of the Datta Jayanthi celebrations, the CPI (M) Karnataka unit on Monday urged the Chief Minister to convene an all-party meeting to discuss the steps to be taken to protect communal harmony.

The CPI (M) alleged that there was a possibility of the government machinery being misused.

The Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Sriram Sene had already planned several programmes, it said and demanded that any attempt to create communal disturbances in the name of Datta Jayanthi should be firmly dealt with.

It expressed concern over what it alleged the organised efforts to use seers of maths to bring back to vedic traditions the Lingayats and Vokkaligas.

Chairman of the All-India Christian Council John Dayal accused Home Minister V.S. Acharya of defending the culprits and demanded his resignation.

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