Bantwal, June 21: In a joint operation, a police team from Mangaluru and Bantwal arrested three accused including a Tulu film actor on charges of assaulting and attempting murder BJP workers at Baddekatte in the taluk last week, on Thursday.  

The arrested are identified as main accused Surendra Bhandary (37), Sathish Kulal (37) and Prithviraj J Shetty (35).  On a tip-off, Surendra Bhandary and Sathish Kulal were arrested at Pachchinadka in Mangaluru and another accused Pruthviraj who was absconding was arrested at Kumble at Kerala. All the three would be produced before the court, the police said.

About the incident

A team led by Surendra Bhadary attacked BJP workers and Mani gram panchayat members Ganesh Rai and Pushparaj E at Baddekatte in Bantwal and made futile attempt to kill them. A person had recorded the scene where Surendra Bhandary was seen abusing with foul language and attacking the victims wielding a lethal weapon and it was viral in the social media.

Under the guidance of DySP, DCIB police inspector Sunil Nayak, Bantwala PSIs Chandrashekar, Harish, Yallappa and Prasanna, Uday Rai, Praveen and Iqbal of DCIB, staff Girish, Murugesh, Nazeer, Umesh, Kumar, Mallik Saab,Danya, Prashanth, Kedar, Hanumanthu and Diwakar participated in the operation.

SP Ravikante Gowda announced prizes to the police personnel for their success in the investigation.

 

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New Delhi, Sep 24: The Congress on Tuesday cited BJP MP Kangana Ranaut's purported remarks on farm laws to allege that the ruling party was making efforts to bring back the three laws that were repealed in 2021, and asserted that Haryana will give a befitting reply to it.

The Congress shared on X an undated video of Ranaut in which she is purportedly saying in Hindi, "Farm laws that have been repealed should be brought back. I think this may get controversial. The laws in farmers' interest be brought back. Farmers should themselves demand this (to bring farm laws back) so that there is no hindrance to their prosperity.

"Farmers are a pillar of strength in India's progress. Only in some states, they had objected to farm laws. I appeal with folded hands that farm laws should be brought back in the interest of farmers."

In a post in Hindi along with the video, the Congress said, "The three black laws imposed on farmers should be brought back: BJP MP Kangana Ranaut has said this. More than 750 farmers of the country were martyred, only then did the Modi government wake up and these black laws were withdrawn."

Now BJP MPs are planning to bring back these laws, the Congress alleged.

"The Congress is with the farmers. These black laws will never return, no matter how hard Narendra Modi and his MPs try," the opposition party said on X.

Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate also shared the video of Ranaut on X and said, "'All three farm laws should be brought back': BJP MP Kangana Ranaut. More than 750 farmers were martyred while protesting against the three black farmer laws. Efforts are being made to bring them back."

"We will never let that happen. Haryana will answer first," she said in an apparent reference to the assembly polls in Haryana.

Congress' media and publicity department head Pawan Khera also shared the video on X and said it was the BJP's "real thinking".

"How many times will you deceive the farmers, you two-faced people?" Khera said in a post in Hindi.

The three laws -- Farmer's Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act; The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act; and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act -- were repealed in November 2021.

The farmers' protest started at the fag-end of November 2020 and ended after Parliament repealed the three laws. The legislations came into force in June 2020 and were repealed in November 2021.