Bus companies between Karnataka and Maharashtra have been affected as a result of assault on bus drivers from either side amid the sudden flare-up of border row in Belagavi within the final two days.
The suspension of buses led to inconvenience to the passengers. (ANI)
The decades-old dispute resurfaced on Friday when a bus driver and a conductor had been crushed up for allegedly not talking in Marathi at Marihal in Belagavi.
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The bus conductor acknowledged in his police grievance {that a} woman requested for a ticket in Marathi. When he stated he didn’t know Marathi and requested her to talk in Kannada, she and her male good friend attacked him.
At Marihal, a gaggle of youths intercepted the bus and beat up the conductor.
Whereas police arrested 4 individuals for the assault, the conductor has additionally been booked for ‘indecent behaviour’ with the minor woman on a grievance filed by the woman, Belagavi Police Commissioner Yada Martin Marbaniang instructed reporters.
In a retaliatory act, miscreants attacked and blackened a bus driver of Maharashtra State Street Transport Company (MSRTC) Bhaskar Jadhav at Guyilal in Hiriyur Taluk of Chitradurga district on Saturday.
Police have arrested a couple of who had been allegedly concerned within the crime.
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On Sunday an ultra-luxury bus belonging to the Karnataka State Street Transport Company (KSRTC) was disfigured with slogans like ‘Jai Maharashtra’, ‘Marathi’ and ‘Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’ written on it with black paint.
The KSRTC has additionally minimised the bus companies to Maharashtra following the incident.
“We have limited the number of buses going to Maharashtra for the time being and are taking all precautions to normalise the situation,” a senior officer within the North West Karnataka Street Transport Company (NWKRTC) instructed PTI.
He stated he was in contact along with his Maharashtra counterpart to make sure easy bus companies between the 2 states.
Additionally, the bus conductor has been booked beneath the Safety of Kids from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act following a grievance lodged by the woman.
Belagavi has a considerable Marathi inhabitants and a bit amongst them typically calls for that this border district be merged with Maharashtra.
The Karnataka authorities and the native Kannada populace stoutly oppose this demand.
To say its would possibly, the Karnataka authorities has constructed Suvarna Vidhana Soudha in Belagavi the place as soon as in a 12 months it holds the legislative session.