Belagavi: a case under the Pocso Law against the NWKRTC bus driver who was assaulted by a group of people in Balekundri (KH) on Friday for not talking to a passenger in Marathi. According to the police, the passenger in question, a university student, is a younger girl.
The bus driver, Rajesab Momin, was also attacked, according to the police complaint filed by director Basavaraj Hukkeri, who is receiving treatment in a Belagavi hospital, after the attack.
The director had a discussion with the university student when she insisted that she spoke to her in Marathi, after he demanded that her male partner buy a ticket for the trip. Later, around 20 people boarded the bus in Balekundri and hit the driver and the driver.
The Kannada attire that had already expressed their anger for the attack on the crew, raised the launch several higher notches on Saturday.
Condemning the incident and registration of a case against the driver under the prevention of children of the Law of Sexual Crimes (Pocso), Karnataka Nava Nava Nava nirmana blacked the face of a face of a Maharashtra bus driver and the front windshield of a bus in Chitradurga on Saturday. Meanwhile, Karnataka Rakshana Vedike The activists protested outside the Marihal Police Station and in Channamma Circle.
Police have arrested four people so far, including a minor, in relation to the assault. While three of them were sent in judicial custody for 14 days, the child was sent to a reference house on Friday night.
The incident led to the interruption in bus services between Karnataka and Maharashtra, with Kannada outfits in Karnataka and Shiv Sena activists on the Maharashtra side of the border protest.
The police commissioner, Iada Martin Marbaniang, said: “Three teams have been formed to find the remaining defendant. The victim was a younger girl and a complaint was filed in her name under section 12 of the Pocso Law against the director.”
Police said that precautionary measures have been taken to maintain the law and order, and SPS along the border of Karnataka-Maharashtra will be told to share information about the steps that will be taken to avoid any adversary incident.