Kannada activist Vatal Nagaraj arrested amidst high drama in a case over a protest dating back to 2021

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Five years ago, a protestation was held successful beforehand of the location of the past Education Minister Suresh Kumar. Considering this, contiguous the constabulary of Basaveshwaranagar Police Station person travel to Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha person Vatal Nagaraj 's location to apprehension him. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Senior Kannada activistic and erstwhile MLA Vatal Nagaraj was arrested by the Basaveshwaranagar constabulary from his residence successful Dollar’s Colony amidst precocious play connected Wednesday.

This was pursuing a warrant issued by the 42nd Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate tribunal successful transportation with a lawsuit implicit a protestation dating backmost to 2021. “I had sat connected a protestation successful beforehand of past Education Minister S. Suresh Kumar, demanding that each SSLC students beryllium passed that twelvemonth without exams, owed to the pandemic. I was adjacent wearing a mask. Police filed an FIR against maine for that protestation and it has dragged connected till now. Despite Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s assurance connected November 1, 2025 that each cases against Kannada activists volition beryllium withdrawn, this lawsuit is impervious that it is not yet the case,” Mr. Nagaraj told The Hindu.

Published - April 08, 2026 09:44 p.m. IST

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