Pramesh Jain
General secretary of state youth congress among 17 persons booked under Disaster Management act for organizing cycle rally violating guidelines issued by Karnataka government and city police commissioner in Sanjaynagar to protest fuel price hike during prohibitory order in force on Monday.
Senior officer told reporters,that the protestors had applied for the permission to hold a rally from Baptist hospital to the race course to protest against fuel price hike.The police denied permission citing covid protocol and also warned them not to carry.
Despite warning the rally was organised violating the protocol and the protestors did not wear any masks nor maintained social distance,Mr. Nagesh said in his complaint .
As a preventive measure the police seized the bicycles and stopped the rally citing coalitions of the prohibitory orders enforced by the city police commissioner.
The Sanjaynagar police have also seized five bicycles from Sandeep Kumar,Srinivasa BV,Raksha Ramaiah, Deepak Reddy,Ateequalla Khan,Bhavya KR and Akhil Ahmed and others and also charged the protestors under unlawful assembly, disobedience of order and under negligence act to spread infection and further investigation is on he added.
