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Five held
in Karnataka for spreading rumours: Shettar
Saturday August 18, 2012 11:46:10 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi/Bangalore: Karnataka Police have arrested five people and are hunting for
four more for spreading rumours of an impending attack on people
from the northeast in Bangalore, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar
said Friday.
This is the first arrest since the rumour spread in Bangalore and
other places leading to over 16,000 northeast people leaving the
Karnataka capital since Aug 15.
In Bangalore, Deputy Chief Minister R. Ashoka, who holds the home
portfolio, said three persons were arrested Friday for assaulting
three people from Manipur.
Shettar, who is in New Delhi to attend Saturday's BJP chief
ministers' meeting, told reporters: "Five people have been
arrested and four more have been identified (for rumour
mongering). They too will be arrested soon," he said.
He declined to give more details about the arrested people saying
investigations were on.
Late Friday Shettar met union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and
briefed about the steps to taken to instill confidence among the
northeast people in Bangalore and other parts of the state.
Bangalore is home to around 240,000 people from the northeast
while another 100,000 are in other parts of the state. While
several thousand among 340,000 people are students, most of the
others work in hotels, beauty parlours and as security guards.
As part of the confidence-instilling efforts, Ashoka and senior
civil and police officials Friday held a meeting in Bangalore with
representatives of northeast people and of sectors employing them.
Shettar in Delhi and Ashoka in Bangalore said the number of of
northeast people who left the city Friday was less compared the
exodus Wednesday and Thursday.
However, South Western Railway (SWR) spokesman Syed Imtiaz Ahmed
told IANS in Bangalore that "as over 8,000 unreserved tickets were
sold throughout the day... we have arranged three special trains
from Bangalore to Guwahati to clear the extraordinary rush of
passengers to northeast. One train left at 4 p.m. and another at 8
p.m. One more will depart at 10 p.m."
The special trains are in addition to the regular express trains
to Guwahati and Howrah, which leave Bangalore late in the night.
In a bid to arrest the exodus from Karnataka, two Assam ministers'
Nilamani Sen Deka and Chandra Brahma flew from Guwahati to
Bangalore Friday afternoon and talked to the hundreds of northeast
people waiting to leave. Their efforts failed to convince the
people.
"We have appealed to our people to put off their travel plans and
stay back as the Karnataka government had assured them full
protection. They need not fear for their safety as the authorities
have taken enough measures to provide security," the ministers
told reporters at the city railway station in the presence of
Ashoka and state Law Minister S. Suresh Kumar.
Though majority of those leaving said that they were rushing home
for a break due to week-long holidays, some of them confirmed that
they were going back in response to summons from worried parents
and relatives, following rumours that they would be attacked after
Ramadan in retaliation to the recent violence in Assam.
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