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After precocious drama, the constabulary forcefully took Akhila Karnataka State Students’ Association (AKSSA) president Kanthkumar, who had begun an indefinite protestation seeking aboriginal recruitment notification, into preventive custody successful Dharwad connected Saturday (May 9).
Seeking an contiguous recruitment notification from the State authorities for filling up 56,432 posts and urging the authorities to manus implicit the probe into alleged irregularities successful the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Mr. Kanthkumar had launched an indefinite protestation astatine the Gandhi Vana successful beforehand of the Dharwad Deputy Commissioner’s bureau connected May 9.
After a while, the constabulary arrived astatine the protestation venue and requested him not to protestation successful Dharwad arsenic the tribunal had not permitted him to bash so. Soon, an statement broke retired betwixt Mr. Kanthkumar and the constabulary officials, who requested him to extremity his protest.
As the concern escalated, Police Inspector Dayanand Shegunasi warned Kanthkumar against continuing the agitation. He told him that since the tribunal had not permitted him clasp protests successful Dharwad, it would beryllium a contempt of tribunal if helium continued to protest.
Mr. Kanthkumar, however, was successful nary temper to listen. He contended that arsenic the elections to Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) were connected the anvil, determination was likelihood of the State authorities delaying the recruitment process successful the sanction of canvass codification of conduct. Although assorted hurdles including the contented of interior preservation had been resolved, the State authorities had not taken steps to contented the recruitment notification, helium said.
As Mr. Kanthkumar declined to extremity the protest, the constabulary personnel dragged him and forcefully made him to get into a constabulary vehicle, earlier driving away. During the ruckus, Mr. Kanthkumar kept raising slogans and alleged that helium was being targeted for raising the close questions.
