Udupi, Apr 29: Condemning the recent Bajrang Dal attack on a Koraga family at Angodi near Trasi in Kundapur taluk over beef eating, activists and human rights and Dalits staged a protest in front of the office of Udupi superintendent of police on Friday.
A group of miscreants belonging Bajrang Dal had barged into the house of gram panchayat member Shakuntala in Koraga Colony alleging that they were cooking beef and attacked three youths on April 24. However, instead of arresting the assailants, the jurisdictional Gangolli police had arrested the victims on the same day on the charge of slaughtering oxen based on a complained lodged by the Bajrang Dal activists.
The protesters demanded the arrest of all the Bajrang Dal activists who involved in the attack. They also demanded action against the local police, who according to them, helped the Bajrang Dal.
"This act shows that a section of the community is forcing people what they should eat. The choice of food is ours and we will continue to do that. No one has the right to say what we should eat. After the attack, police arrested innocent victims. Now the family lives in fear," said, Sunder Master, DSS district convener.
A memorandum was given to district police superintendent KT Balakrishna urging for the arrest of the accused and withdrawing the case against the innocent Koraga youth.
SP KT Balakrishna said, "Investigation is going on, and the accused will be arrested soon".
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