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The Campaign Against Hate Speech corporate has appealed to the Director General of Police, Karnataka, to instrumentality enactment against right-wing activistic and cattle vigilantePuneeth Kerehalli for allegedly intimidating migrant workers, entering their houses and interrogating them astir their nationality.
“We constitute to gully your urgent attraction to profoundly troubling behaviour by Puneeth Kerehalli, a idiosyncratic presently facing execution complaint and who is retired connected bail, who has been repeatedly entering migrant workers’ dwellings and sheds, interrogating them astir their nationality, and demanding individuality documents portion threatening and intimidating them. These actions are illegal, undermine the dignity and information of workers, and hazard provoking mob violence,” reads a missive submitted by the corporate to the DGP.
According to the letter, successful a video uploaded by Mr. Kerehalli connected his YouTube transmission connected January 14, helium is seen calling immoderate persons ‘illegal migrants’ and intimidating them, demanding that they disclose their citizenship, taking videos without their consent, and demanding Aadhaar cards of radical without immoderate authorisation.
“Any undocumented migration is to beryllium acted upon by the MHA, FRRO and State authorities. As such, backstage citizens specified arsenic Puneeth Kerehalli person nary close to unlawfully participate the homes of people, harass and intimidate them,” states the letter.
The corporate further accuses Mr. Kerehalli of attempting to communalise the contented and points retired that determination is simply a well-documented signifier of migrant workers being brutally attacked oregon lynched connected suspicion of being ‘Bangladeshi’.
