Hubballi: Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik has responded with a threat, to a statement by Congress MLA Tanveer Seth to install a statue of Tipu Sultan in Mysuru.

The legislator had recently said in Mysuru that, in the backdrop of several instances of tweaking facts from history, he would install a 100-foot-tall statue of the ‘Tiger of Mysore’ in either Srirangapatna or Mysuru. “The future generations will get to learn the truth about the history of our land. I will install a statue of Tipu Sultan although installation of statues is prohibited in Islam,” Seth has stated at a public event.

Expressing his ire towards the statement, Pramod Muthalik has threatened that such a statue would be razed like the Babri Masjid.

The Sene head, who addressed the media after attending the Kanaka Jayanti event at Idgah Maidan in Hubballi city, warned, “If a statue of Tipu is installed, we will destroy it like we destroyed the Babri Masjid.”

He further said that he opposed the forced addition of the word ‘secular’ in the Constitution of India, “Since India is a nation for Hindus just as Pakistan is for Muslims.”

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Mangaluru: The complainant in the Dharmasthala Mass Burial Case on Saturday appeared before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the state government to probe the alleged criminal activities under the jurisdiction limits of Dharmasthala Police Station.

The complainant is said to have presented himself before the SIT at the IB office in Kadri, accompanied by his advocates. The complainant is expected to be interrogated in the presence of DIG (Recruitment Division) MN Anucheth, sources have said.

The Karnataka government constituted the SIT under the leadership of Director General of Police (Internal Security Division), Pranav Mohanty, with other key members including DIG (Recruitment Division) MN Anucheth, DCP (CAR Central) Soumya Latha, and SP (Internal Security Division) Jitendra Kumar Dayama.