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The Kodagu territory constabulary has issued a stern informing against individuals indulging successful indecent behaviour and creating a nuisance during the upcoming Bedu festival.
The Bedu festival is scheduled to beryllium held connected May 28, 2026 successful Ayyappa Bhadrakali Temple successful Devarapura colony falling successful Gonikoppal Police presumption limits successful Ponnampet taluk of Kodagu district. During the festival, devotees successful accepted costumes sojourn the temple from antithetic parts of the territory and neighbouring districts to fulfil their vows, said the Superintendent of Kodagu territory constabulary successful a connection here.
“However, it has been observed that immoderate devotees successful costumes, aft consuming excessive alcohol, sojourn shops and commercialized establishments successful Gonikoppal and Tithimati towns and pressurise radical to springiness them money,” the enactment said
The devotees successful specified costumes reportedly obstruct members of the nationalist and vehicles coming into the municipality for concern purposes. “Further, immoderate costumed individuals person been recovered behaving indecently with traders, store owners and peculiarly with women visiting the shops, too abusing them utilizing objectionable connection and causing nuisance,” the connection said.
The Kodagu District Police Department has warned that strict ineligible enactment volition beryllium taken arsenic per instrumentality against those recovered indulging successful specified activities.
