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The Chamarajanagar constabulary person arrested a 31-year-old antheral identified arsenic Manjunath for allegedly damaging B.R. Ambedkar’s statue and defacing his representation connected a flex banner successful Jyothigowdanapura colony successful Chamarajanagar district.
Superintendent of Chamarajanagar territory constabulary B.T. Kavitha said that a full of 7 peculiar teams had been constituted by the territory constabulary to analyse the reported harm to Ambedkar’s statue betwixt 11 p.m. connected October 23 and 5.30 a.m. connected October 24 aft a lawsuit was registered astatine the Chamarajanagar East Police presumption nether the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984.
The accused had not lone damaged Ambedkar’s statue, but besides vandalized the idol of Buddha astatine Lumbini Buddha Vihar, portion besides defacing flex banners of Ambedkar successful Jyothigowdanapura.
During the probe of the “highly delicate case”, Ms. Kavitha said that the constabulary examined 86 CCTVs successful and astir Jyothigowdanapura and adjacent areas portion besides analysing 1,877 telephone item records (CDRs) and scrutinising compartment ID and operation dump information from 24 locations.
Apart from extensively utilizing method and technological probe methods, the constabulary gathered clues from lodges, bars, and restaurants astir Chamarajanagar town, and from the section bushed staff, transgression branch, and informants.
Based connected “technical evidence” and “credible leads”, the constabulary zeroed down connected Manjunath, a nonmigratory of Jyothigowdanapura, who works successful a shamiana business.
After helium was taken into custody and interrogated, the accused, belonging to the Nayaka community, revealed that helium had quarreled with women belonging to the Scheduled Caste assemblage successful the colony and had deed 1 of them with a slipper. Following the incident, the colony elders convened a panchayat gathering and penalised him ₹60,000, that helium agreed to pay.
He reportedly pledged golden from his location and paid ₹30,000 initially and aboriginal sold his motorcycle to wage the remaining good of ₹30,000.
Due to a grudge developed arsenic a effect of this incident, the accused, nether the power of alcohol, had committed the enactment of vandalism, the constabulary said.
The Superintendent of Police has commended each the officers involved, including Additional Superintendent of Police Shashidhar, Deputy Superintendents of Police Sneharaj and Dharmendra, too the different unit for their diligent and coordinated efforts successful the investigation.
