Bengaluru, Dec 28( PTI) Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Thursday said the government won't allow anyone to take law into their own hands in the state in the name of fighting for the Kannada language. He was replying to the large- scale vandalization in Bengaluru by the activists of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike( Narayana Gowda body) targeting shops and business establishments which didn't have Kannada billboards, announcements and name plates.
" We aren't against thepro-Kannada activists but they shouldn't take law into their hands. We aren't ready to accept damage caused to the parcels in Bengaluru," Shivakumar told journalists then. " We've to save Kannada and we admire those who fight for saving Kannada but that shouldn't mean that the government will shut it's eyes to vandalization," he added. The Deputy CM said the government directions are clear that billboards, announcements and name plates should have 60 per cent Kannada and there's a way to apply it similar as issuing notices to those violating this norm.
The protesters can carry demurrers and raise taglines but dangerous property isn't respectable, he said. " We're committed to save Kannada. Indeed the CM has directed us to have all the dispatches and our sanctioned business in Kannada. He'd said that the government is committed to save Kannada," Shivakumar told journalists. To a question that T A Narayana Gowda, KRV convener, has given a warning to the government that it'll face the music during the Lok Sabha choices if it didn't admire the sentiments of Kannadigas, Shivakumar said let them do whatever they want in a popular manner but vandalization isn't accepted.
" Investors have come then from different corridor of the world. People are living then to make their livelihood. They shouldn't be hovered ," he added. Meanwhile, a Magistrate Court in Bengaluru has transferred over 29 Kannada activists including Karnataka Rakshana Vedike president TA Narayana Gowda, to 14 days judicial guardianship till January 10. They were arrested by the police on Wednesday after their demurrers demanding that 60 per cent of nameboards in marketable establishments to be in Kannada turned violent with destruction of boards that were in English.
Police had detained nearly 500 activists of the KRV who went on the rage across Bengaluru and other corridor of Karnataka. Gowda was arrested along with some of his helpers in Yelahanka. On Thursday at around 5 AM, he was produced before a Magistrate at his hearthstone in Devanahalli who ordered the judicial guardianship of the arrested persons. The police have registered three separate FIRs at the Chikkajala Police Station against Gowda and 28 others under Sections 188, 283, 341, 353 and 427 of the Indian Penal Code.
The allegations include assault or felonious force to discourage public menial from discharge of his duty, unlawful restraint, mischief, beget peril, inhibition or injury to any person and defiance to order properly announced by public menial. After their detention on Wednesday evening, Gowda and others were kept at the Police Driving and Maintainance School in Yelahanka before being taken for medical examination and produced before the Magistrate. Sources said they will be shifted to the Central Jail at Parappana Agrahara in the megacity.
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