12 September,2016 06:14 PM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
A bus was burned and other vehicles were set to fire by pro-Kannada activists on Monday in Bengaluru during protests over Cauvery water issue. Watch video here
A bus was burned and other vehicles were set to fire by pro-Kannada activists on Monday in Bengaluru during protests over Cauvery water issue.
Watch video here
WATCH: Pro-Kannada activists set a vehicle on fire in Bengaluru during Protest over Cauvery water issue pic.twitter.com/FSMmpQ0FzT
- ANI (@ANI_news) September 12, 2016
Security was tightened across Bengaluru on Monday to prevent attacks on people over the Cauvery river water controversy and for the Bakrid festival on Tuesday, said Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwar.
"We have intensified security and stepped up vigil in Bengaluru to ensure peace and maintain law and order. Additional police forces have been deployed in localities where pre-dominantly Tamils live, for their protection," Parameshwar told reporters.
Platoons of Karnataka State Reserve Police have been rushed to Mandya and Mysuru for deployment on the state highways and protecting reservoirs in the river basin from being attacked by angry protestors over the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu.
The additional measures were taken amid reports that miscreants had set afire two trucks with Tamil Nadu registration at Nice road on Bengaluru-Mysuru road and at Attibele near the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border on National Highway 7.
