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Residents of Belur municipality successful Hassan territory of Karnataka, connected September 22, performed purification rituals astatine a Ganesha temple wherever the idol was desecrated connected September 20 night.
The devotees carried h2o from the pond astatine the historical Channakeshava temple and cleaned the temple premises. The priests conducted homas and offered peculiar prayers to Lord Ganesha successful the beingness of Belur MLA H.K. Suresh and others.
Protest against desecration
The residents, nether the enactment of the MLA and others, took retired a protestation march condemning the incident. They marched successful a procession from Channakeshava temple to Basaveshwara Circle. MLA H.K. Suresh of the BJP, erstwhile MLA K.S. Lingesh of the JD(S) and others participated successful the protest.
A woman, a nonmigratory of Hassan town, allegedly desecrated the Ganesha idol astatine the temple connected September 20 night. On September 21, Hassan constabulary arrested Leelamma, who allegedly placed slippers connected the idol. The pistillate is said to beryllium mentally unstable.
