Muthalik arrested for inflamatory speeches during Mysore riots

Belgaum/Mysore, July 25 (PTI) Sri Rama Sene Chief Pramod
Muthalik, who stirred a controvery with an attack on pub goers
in Mangalore by his activists, has been arrested again on
charges of making inflamatory speeches during communal riots
in Mysore and remanded to judicial custody till August 7.

Muthalik (46), who is out on bail in the January pub
attack case, was arrested from Belgaum last night for
allegedly making speeches hurting sentiments of a particular
community during the Mysore communal clashes in the first week
of June which left three persons dead.

He was produced before the second Additional Chief
Metropolitan Court, which remanded him to judicial custody on
Saturday.

The court also put off the hearing on the bail
application moved by Muthalik to August 28 as the Public
Prosecutor sought time to file his objections.

On June two, communal clashes broke out at Mysore in
India's southern state of Karnataka over the alleged defiling
of a madrassa.

The chief of the right-wing outfit was in the news
following an attack on boys and girls in a Mangalore pub and
an anti-Valentine's Day campaign by his activists.

Muthalik was first arrested by the Belgaum police on
January 27 in connection with a case for distributing
pamphlets with provocative slogans in Davanagere on January 4.

After he was granted bail in the case, a police team from
Manglore re-arrested Muthalik on January 28 in connection with
the pub attack.

Later in the day, a delegation of Sene men called on
Belgaum District Deputy Commissioner J Ravi Shankar and
submitted a memorandum, condemning Muthalik's arrest.

Meanwhile, the city police arrested Fayaz, a resident of
Udayagiri locality, for allegedly distributing pamphlets with
inflammatory contents. PTI CORR
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