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The Bannerghatta constabulary connected Monday arrested a 54-year-old hostel warden of a backstage engineering assemblage for allegedly making derogatory remarks against the Kannada connection and objecting to students speaking it connected the hostel premises.
The accused has been identified arsenic Suresh P.V., who was moving arsenic a warden astatine the AMC Engineering College boys’ hostel connected Bannerghatta Road.
Based connected a ailment lodged by protester Mahesh Hatti, the constabulary registered a lawsuit against Suresh nether Section 196 (promoting enmity, hatred oregon disharmony betwixt linguistic groups prejudicial to nationalist tranquillity), and Section 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
The accused was arrested and aboriginal remanded successful judicial custody. The incidental came to airy aft a video went viral connected societal media, allegedly showing the warden instructing students not to talk Kannada connected campus. In the video, Suresh was heard telling students successful Hindi: “If you privation to talk successful Kannada, bash it astatine home.”
When the students objected, helium reportedly claimed that speaking Kannada connected field required anterior support from the assemblage administration, triggering outrage among students and Kannada activists.
Following the viral video, students and pro-Kannada organisations staged protests, demanding strict enactment against the warden. The activists condemned the remarks arsenic ‘anti-Kannada’ and an insult to the State’s connection and culture.
Tension prevailed astatine the assemblage for immoderate clip arsenic a radical of activists, led by Rupesh Rajanna, State president of Yuva Karnataka Vedike, staged a protestation successful beforehand of the assemblage demanding contiguous action. The protesters warned that the agitation would proceed until enactment was taken against the accused.
In effect to the backlash, the assemblage absorption dismissed Suresh with contiguous effect. He had been moving astatine the hostel for the past 3 years, officials said.
